Rich Teer wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a couple of situations for which Xen or VirtualBox would
> seem to be ideal. The first is for a Win2003 server running M$'s
> database, and the second is for running a bookkeeping program
> once or twice per month.
>
> My question is: how do Xen and VirtualBox compare and contrast,
> and which would be the better solution for the usage scenarios
> described above (and why)? More generally, why would one pick
> one technology over the other?
>
> TIA
AFAIK, sun is projecting VirtualBox as a desktop virtualization solution and
xVM (xen) as a sever virtualization solution.
Your 2nd requirement seems to fit a VB use case. Unless we are talking of a
huge database, you may want to give a try with VB for your first requirement
as well.
Thanks.
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