recommendations on virtualization software

[Jarod Wilson]

On Thursday 19 March 2009 11:55:12 Mark Ellison wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am seeking recommendations and pros/cons of different virtualization 
> software.
> 
> The physical machine is a Intel T9400 quad core with 8GB ram, 2x500GB 
> sata disks and 1Gb nic.  My current plan is to run 64 bit Fedora Core 10 
> (or 11 as available) as the host OS.  The guest OSes will include a mix 
> vista, xp and other UNIX variants.
> 
> I am aware of the commercially available VMware workstation, VirtualBox 
> and Xen.  Any feedback and recommendations are appreciated.

None of the above. I prefer KVM over all of the above on hardware that
supports it.

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com