Enabling Virtual Machine support

[Thomas Charron]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:
> Of all the hypervisors, I feel VirtualBox is the easiest to maintain.  I've
> done VMware Server, ESXi and played with KVM.  I wonder about the
> performance differences but not enough to test :-)

  I loved VMWare until the latest free version of VMWare Server 2.x.
I was highly annoyed by the fact that they went over to a Tomcat based
manager.  Specifically, if they wanted to do it, for GODS sake change
the ports they're using.  I literally gave up trying to get it to
function on my development systems which where running two versions of
Tomcat already.  This was on Windows hosts with Linux guests.

  So after my frustration I tried VirtualBox again.  I'd tried it in
the past and found it unstable, but the latest versions feel rock
solid, and much faster.  Add in the native graphics acceleration, and
it's a win for us at least.

  Now if only VirtualBox had the same management capabilities, I'd
consider using it on the servers as well.

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-- Thomas