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View Poll Results: Which VT software do you prefer? | |||
Parallels | 0 | 0% | |
Virtualbox | 13 | 37.14% | |
VMWare (various flavors) | 16 | 45.71% | |
Qemu (various combos or not) | 6 | 17.14% | |
Voters: 35. You may not vote on this poll |
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I think VMware is the one of the best virtualization software because It's free and It's compatible with all Linux
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Compatible with all Linux you say, all Linux systems use Linux kernel (SRSLY?) so what is strange here that it runs on all Linux systems? WMware is crap because it is LIMITED to Linux (and windows, even worse). You cannot run it on OpenSolaris or FreeBSD (dont even start about WMware3) or any other UNIX.
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Its genrally as fast or even faster then WMware, very responsive, great for desktop usage, along with its seamless mode.
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religions, worst damnation of mankind "If 386BSD had been available when I started on Linux, Linux would probably never had happened." Linus Torvalds Linux is not UNIX! Face it! It is not an insult. It is fact: GNU is a recursive acronym for “GNU's Not UNIX”. vermaden's: links resources deviantart spreadbsd |
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I will have to benchamrk them (and many more) as part of my master's thesis, so I will put them here before 2009 begin.
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Hello,
At work I am setting up a workstation for myself that will need virtualization. It will run Slackware 12.1 and will need to emulate Windows XP. The primary software that will be run will be MS Office and maybe some kind of vnc. Any suggestions?
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For a situation like that, I think VirtualBox will be your best choice. See my http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/vmcomp.html
(Did I mention that page already in this thread? Well, it was probably on page one.) The only argument against it would be if you need the XP machine to be a host on the LAN. However, setting up a bridged connection isn't overly difficult. VMware-server (choose the current 1.6-whatever, not the beta 2.0) does the bridged networking out of the box but requires more resources in my opinion. Lastly, one thing I do find is that any VM will gradually eat up resources, and I've found that if I start with nice -n 19 (lowest priority) it will still respond well enough, and not slow down the host very much. |
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I have a friend at work who uses VMWare running under Windows XP to emulate Windows XP that he uses to configure automated Windows installs. He sets the RAM that VMWare has access to so that it doesn't take all of it. I would imagine that VirtualBox would have similar configurability.
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Yes, it's not RAM that's the issue, it's more CPU time. The docs that come with VBox aren't bad, they go through the limitations of NAT. It can get to the LAN, but the LAN can't get to it, at least not without more research than it took me to set up bridged networking. That is, it will have a default NAT address of 10.2.x.x (I think, maybe 10.1.x.x or even 10.0.x.x.) From that machine, on a 192.168.1.0/24 network, I can put in, for example, WinSCP, a GUI scp client for MS systems, and ssh by address to the host. I can reach the Internet. I can access other Windows hosts by IP---hrrm, possibly by name, but I've never tried. At work, I have it set up for bridged networking, and I no longer have any MS boxes on my home LAN. However, it can connect to say, a box running samba, again, I'm not sure if it requires the IP or can do it by name. So, it can get out without problem. However, the other machines on the LAN can't get in.
Again, setting up bridged networking isn't all that difficult, it's just not an out of the box thing at this point. Now that I've written an article about it (linked from the article mentioned above) it's almost trivial, since, like so many things in Unix and Unix like systems, it's not that it's complex, it's just that the documentation that will work is either hard to find or outdated. |
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Hello,
Could you please clear up my confusion. What is the host OS and the guest OS. The way I'm thinking is that the host OS is the one that is running the virtualization software and the guest OS is the one that is being emulated by the virtualization software. Is my thinking correct?
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That's right.
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There was a minimum of 10 characters, I see no reason to keep this enabled ... So I disabled this feature.
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Yay!
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Plus, you get a simple, standard VNC console to all of your virtual machines. No need to install rdesktop or VNC in the guest, and no need to use a standalone access tool like VMWare/VBox. (Yeah, I'm a KVM pimp right now.) |
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Hello,
I decided to use VirtualBox. It was a bear to try to install - and after all my trying, I still couldn't get it to compile. So, I opted for the pre-compiled binary with the non-open license. I got that installed and I have an empty VM configured (I gave it - 256MB RAM, 10GB storage) that I'll install XP on tomorrow.
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