On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Paul Smith wrote: > On Jan 19, 2008 10:18 AM, Brian Chadwick <brianchad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > for the sake of a presentation i'm giving, i want to list all of the > > > options for emulation and virtualization under fedora. i won't be > > > explaining them all in horrendous detail (it's only an hour), but i at > > > least want to hit the high points, so i'm just trying to create a list > > > -- stuff like QEMU, VirtualBox, VMwarePlayer, JumpBox, KVM, Xen ... > > > and on and on. > > > > > > what's worth having on that list? after it's all over, i'll post a > > > summary (and perhaps a few simple recipes) to the wiki. thanks. > > > > > I havent used QEMU, though a lot of things are based around it. I used > > to use VMWare. Then I found VirtualBox. FOSS and easy to use. I give it > > full marks. Xen and KVM require (as far as i know) special CPU support, > > and as I have an old Athloin XP3200+, I cant use them. > > > > But yeah ... put VirtualBox on your list for sure. > > Is VirtualBox superior to VMware Server? i'm hoping someone else can handle that, as i've *just* started to play with it, and i have the first part of the wiki for this. on the main page: http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Fedora_Cookbook you can see the new section on "Emulation and virtualization" and a page on VirtualBox, at least enough to get one started. beyond that, i'll have to come back to it later. i'm currently knee deep in QEMU. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Home page: http://crashcourse.ca Fedora Cookbook: http://crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Fedora_Cookbook ========================================================================
