Re: Which virtualization software should I choose

2009-06-12 Thread Paul Vriens
Jeff Latimer wrote: Paul Vriens wrote: The problem with both VirtualBox and QEMU/KVM seems to be supporting older Windows versions as guests (< NT4). I don't understand VirtualBox says it supports up to Windows 7 and I have XP running. I have had QEMU/KVM running XP. What annoyed me about VM

Re: Which virtualization software should I choose

2009-06-12 Thread Jeff Latimer
Paul Vriens wrote: The problem with both VirtualBox and QEMU/KVM seems to be supporting older Windows versions as guests (< NT4). I don't understand VirtualBox says it supports up to Windows 7 and I have XP running. I have had QEMU/KVM running XP. What annoyed me about VMWare Server was the b

Re: Which virtualization software should I choose

2009-06-12 Thread Paul Vriens
Kai Blin wrote: On Thursday 11 June 2009 14:58:14 David Gerard wrote: VMWare is reputedly better - it's the oldest common VM software and its emulation is very seasoned, well-tested and robust. If you discount that last I checked, VMware still couldn't do IPv6 in their virtual networks, and

Re: Which virtualization software should I choose

2009-06-12 Thread David Gerard
2009/6/12 Kai Blin : > On Thursday 11 June 2009 14:58:14 David Gerard wrote: >> VMWare is reputedly better - it's the oldest common VM software and >> its emulation is very seasoned, well-tested and robust. > If you discount that last I checked, VMware still couldn't do IPv6 in their > virtual ne

Re: Which virtualization software should I choose

2009-06-11 Thread Kai Blin
On Thursday 11 June 2009 14:58:14 David Gerard wrote: > VMWare is reputedly better - it's the oldest common VM software and > its emulation is very seasoned, well-tested and robust. If you discount that last I checked, VMware still couldn't do IPv6 in their virtual networks, and every single ker

Re: Which virtualization software should I choose

2009-06-11 Thread Ben Klein
2009/6/11 Paul Vriens : > Just installed VirtualBox and it does have snaphots but not so extensive as > VMware. In VMware I have some W2K snapshots: > > - out-of-the-box > - SP1 > - SP2 > - SP3 > - SP4 + Windows Update > > I can freely choose which I want to go to. Not so with VirtualBox I'm afraid

Re: Which virtualization software should I choose

2009-06-11 Thread Austin English
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 11:22 AM, David Gerard wrote: > 2009/6/11 Austin English : >> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 7:58 AM, David Gerard wrote: > >>> VirtualBox does okay for Windows and Linux, barely for FreeBSD with >>> lots of caveats and not really for anything else. Notably, OpenBSD >>> doesn't wor

Re: Which virtualization software should I choose

2009-06-11 Thread David Gerard
2009/6/11 Austin English : > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 7:58 AM, David Gerard wrote: >> VirtualBox does okay for Windows and Linux, barely for FreeBSD with >> lots of caveats and not really for anything else. Notably, OpenBSD >> doesn't work and the VirtualBox developers admit it but consider the >>

Re: Which virtualization software should I choose

2009-06-11 Thread David Gerard
2009/6/11 Paul Vriens : > The problem with both VirtualBox and QEMU/KVM seems to be supporting older > Windows versions as guests (< NT4). Yeah. Try QEMU without KVM on a very fast host machine, your ancient Windows should run just as well as it would on a 486 ;-) - d.

Re: Which virtualization software should I choose

2009-06-11 Thread Paul Vriens
On 06/11/2009 02:58 PM, David Gerard wrote: 2009/6/11 Michael Stefaniuc: Paul Vriens wrote: I need to run several Windows versions (95 up to Vista for now) for our winetest and I really like the snapshot possibilities of VMware. Suggestions, recommendations? I'm using KVM/Qemu with libvirt

Re: Which virtualization software should I choose

2009-06-11 Thread Austin English
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 7:58 AM, David Gerard wrote: > VirtualBox does okay for Windows and Linux, barely for FreeBSD with > lots of caveats and not really for anything else. Notably, OpenBSD > doesn't work and the VirtualBox developers admit it but consider the > bug beneath their attention. It's

Re: Which virtualization software should I choose

2009-06-11 Thread David Gerard
2009/6/11 Michael Stefaniuc : > Paul Vriens wrote: >> I need to run several Windows versions (95 up to Vista for now) for our >> winetest and I really like the snapshot possibilities of VMware. >> Suggestions, recommendations? > I'm using KVM/Qemu with libvirt aka virt-manager. I have problems wi

Re: Which virtualization software should I choose

2009-06-11 Thread Nicolas Le Cam
2009/6/11 Paul Vriens : > On 06/11/2009 11:30 AM, Nicolas Le Cam wrote: >> >> 2009/6/11 Paul Vriens: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Just upgraded to Fedora 11 and (yet again) having issues with VMware >>> Workstation. >>> >>> VMware still doesn't support Fedora (as a host) and I'm tired of >>> fixing/patching

Re: Which virtualization software should I choose

2009-06-11 Thread Paul Vriens
On 06/11/2009 11:30 AM, Nicolas Le Cam wrote: 2009/6/11 Paul Vriens: Hi, Just upgraded to Fedora 11 and (yet again) having issues with VMware Workstation. VMware still doesn't support Fedora (as a host) and I'm tired of fixing/patching things, again and again. I need to run several Windows ve

Re: Which virtualization software should I choose

2009-06-11 Thread Michael Stefaniuc
Paul Vriens wrote: Just upgraded to Fedora 11 and (yet again) having issues with VMware Workstation. VMware still doesn't support Fedora (as a host) and I'm tired of fixing/patching things, again and again. I need to run several Windows versions (95 up to Vista for now) for our winetest and

Re: Which virtualization software should I choose

2009-06-11 Thread Nicolas Le Cam
2009/6/11 Paul Vriens : > Hi, > > Just upgraded to Fedora 11 and (yet again) having issues with VMware > Workstation. > > VMware still doesn't support Fedora (as a host) and I'm tired of > fixing/patching things, again and again. > > I need to run several Windows versions (95 up to Vista for now) f

Which virtualization software should I choose

2009-06-11 Thread Paul Vriens
Hi, Just upgraded to Fedora 11 and (yet again) having issues with VMware Workstation. VMware still doesn't support Fedora (as a host) and I'm tired of fixing/patching things, again and again. I need to run several Windows versions (95 up to Vista for now) for our winetest and I really like