(July 14, 2009 at 9:16 am)Tiberius Wrote: I find VMWare a pain to set up, which is why I use VirtualBox.
In defence of VMWare, outside of needing at least 1Gb memory and some HCL issues ESXi is a piece of piss to set up, 5 minutes, bare-metal install and it's done. That's also the reason I'd avoid virtualbox i.e. because it's not bare-metal ... I suppose because I can't see the point in serious virtualisation unless you have a dedicated machine and in such a case the hosting OS becomes superfluous. Of course ESXi still has an OS but as a specialist host my assumption is it takes less resources. I might try it on Windows ... can't be any worse than VMWare server.
(July 14, 2009 at 9:43 am)rjh Wrote: Therefore I opt to use QEMU. It's a command line program with a daunting list of parameters, luckily few of which are necessary.
Sounds complicated ... will steer a course around it Captain
(July 14, 2009 at 10:18 am)leo-rcc Wrote: As far as bare metal hypervisors go I prefer Xenserver and VMware ESXi. On a desktop environment after some bad experiences with VMware server I started using Virtualbox with a windows host, and at home on a Ubuntu host. Both perform remarkably well.
Is Xen bare-metal and available as freeware?
Kyu
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