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Virtualization in Linux: A Review of Four Software Choices (Techthrob.com)Virtualization in Linux: A Review of Four Software Choices (Techthrob.com)Posted Feb 12, 2008 23:12 UTC (Tue) by interalia (subscriber, #26615)Parent article: Virtualization in Linux: A Review of Four Software Choices (Techthrob.com)
I think this review is flawed because it only concerned running Windows. For Linux users, that may be the most common guest OS, but the problem is that it potentially measures optimisation for a Windows guest rather than generic virtualisation performance. And since the hardware did not support VT, that also might affect things. I use Parallels at work for running QNX on a Core 2 with VT. In my limited experience, QNX runs much faster in Parallels than in VMware despite being somewhat crappy on Linux due to the Mac being their biggest focus.
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Virtualization in Linux: A Review of Four Software Choices (Techthrob.com) Posted Feb 13, 2008 1:02 UTC (Wed) by leoc (subscriber, #39773) [Link] Have you tried VirtualBox? Sun just bought the parent company (Innotek), but the code is GPL'd and even the SVN trunk works well (just stick to kernel 2.6.23 on your host, the kernel driver doesn't support 24 yet).
Virtualization in Linux: A Review of Four Software Choices (Techthrob.com) Posted Feb 13, 2008 23:08 UTC (Wed) by interalia (subscriber, #26615) [Link] No, I haven't tried VirtualBox yet actually... good reminder. I haven't looked into it closely, but I thought that the free GPLed version was crippled in a significant way compared to their commercial offering?
Virtualization in Linux: A Review of Four Software Choices (Techthrob.com) Posted Feb 14, 2008 21:13 UTC (Thu) by leoc (subscriber, #39773) [Link] I think the free version is complete. I've run OS/2, Windows and Linux under it. The drawback is that it is somewhat difficult to compile. I would recommend getting the code from subversion. The tarball drops do not contain some of the dependencies so their hokey build system has trouble when you try to point it to versions installed separately.
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