[lug] So much for VMware

[Ferdinand Schmid]

I am running VMWare workstation 5.5.3 build-34685 without problems.  

VMware Workstation and XEN provide different types of virtualization.  
VMware emulates a PC with BIOS and all the hardware.  XEN provides an 
environment for running XEN-ified operating systems.  XEN has much lower 
overhead and we use it extensively here - but not for software testing.

Ferdinand

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Webb [mailto:lists at danielwebb.us] 
Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2006 7:00 PM
To: Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List
Subject: [lug] So much for VMware

I had nothing but good things to say about the VMware beta on Linux (it 
worked
flawlessly), so I figured I'd upgrade to the "stable" version.  What 
could go
wrong if the beta was that good, right?  Now VNC doesn't work right with 
it
and it hangs approximately every 20 minutes.  I'm running a base Debian 
Sarge
virtual machine so I know it's not the VM OS hanging.

And thanks to it not being open source, I'm not going to be able to get 
back
that working beta install.  Guess I'm not too bright; how many times do 
I have
to get burned to learn that proprietary software is nearly always more 
trouble
than it's worth, even when it's free?  I may not be out any money but 
the time
I spent installing and learning VMware was wasted.  Back to qemu or time 
to
learn Xen.

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