Being quite keen on the concept of virtualisation, I find myself in a bit of a quandary with F7. Being one who needs an uptodate kernel (my laptop power does funny things with older ones) I can't run Xen because the kernels are too old. Therefore I have QEMU/KVM or Vmware. Though the F7 documents talk lightly about QEMU being all part of the Virtual Machine Manager, it isn't really; the resulting systems are slow, refuse to boot off valid ISO images and have no configuration options for networking. They don't even use the system CDROM until you specifically add it after the virtual machine is built. So I use qemu-kvm on the command line; not that the Fedora documents mention that option - thank heaven for Google! But I also see that others are choosing Vmware server to virtualise guests, and I wonder why. qemu-kvm is pretty good and fairly fast, so I'm really asking why people choose to use a 3rd party system instead; is it faster? Coupled with that: is the virtual machine manager going to work properly with QEMU/KVM one day, or are the developers all assuming we'll go for Xen? And if the latter, when might we get an Xen kernel that's uptodate? Enquiring minds want to know. JDL
