[lug] Advice on Xen

[Steve A Hart]

I've got to agree with Dan on that.  I have one of my users using 
Virtualbox on a system running Ubuntu 7.1 and he's extremely happy with 
it.  He has not reported any major problems as of yet.

Steve

Dan Ferris wrote:
> Virtualbox is another one to look at.  The only issue I've found is that 
> on Linux, you can't present USB to your VM.
> 
> Dan
> 
> Nathan Berry wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 5:34 AM, Hugh Brown <hugh at math.byu.edu 
>> <mailto:hugh at math.byu.edu>> wrote:
>>
>>     pjr wrote:
>>      > I just got a new machine with a dual core VT compatible chip.
>>      >
>>      > I still need a few M$oft compatible products (hate to admit it) 
>> that
>>      > dont do well under wine, and I need complete compatibility. I
>>     have read
>>      > a bit about Xen, but there are things I am not clear about.
>>     Perhaps one
>>      > of you know the answers or can point me to a good place to learn
>>     more.
>>      >
>>      > If there is hardware not easily supported by linux (lets say a
>>     wireless
>>      > card, fingerprint reader or DVI output from the graphics card),
>>     can the
>>      > guest OS (lets say XP) still use those hardware components even
>>     if dom0
>>      > running linux cannot?
>>      >
>>      > Is there any modern (last 6 months) comparison of tradeoffs in the
>>      > various virtualization technologies? I am thinking of Xen,
>>     Virtualbox,
>>      > Parallels, etc. I can find older comparisons, but nothing recent.
>>      >
>>      > Also, how about tradeoffs between running windows as the host and
>>     linux
>>      > the guest, or vice versa? I wonder whether it will make much
>>     difference
>>      > to me which is which. 95% of my work will be using linux tools, 
>> but
>>      > can't live without those last 5%.
>>      >
>>      > Thanks for any advice you have
>>      >
>>      > Phil
>>      >
>>
>>
>>     If your primary goal is to get Windows working on a linux host, 
>> I'd go
>>     with VMware Server.  Parallels is a product for Mac OSX (though 
>> VMware
>>     just came out with Fusion).
>>
>>     I was at a vmware dog and pony and they said that Xen does well 
>> with CPU
>>     intensive loads but that they do better with I/O loads (and then they
>>     proceeded to say that everything is I/O intensive and should use 
>> them).
>>
>>     Hugh
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>>
>> I have used VM Server and got it to work on my laptop, Dell D800 
>> running Ubuntu.  I can tell you that you have to get everything 
>> working in your host OS that you want to use in your guest OS.  I got 
>> my wireless card, old Linksys, PCMCIA, to work using LINUXANT and then 
>> was able to use it in my Windows XP guest OS.  I was very pleased with 
>> what I could do between the LINUX machine and the Windows machine.  My 
>> only recommendation is to make sure you have ample memory to support 
>> your host OS as well as your guest OS.  Once I got it all setup I was 
>> very pleased with the environment.
>>
>>
>> Nathan
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it - even if I have said it 
>> - unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."
>>
>> -- Buddha
>>
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