Enabling Virtual Machine supportn of virtualization. (buying virtualization support)

Alex Hewitt hewitt_tech at comcast.net
Mon Sep 28 15:53:06 EDT 2009


Jerry Feldman wrote:
> I guess a couple of more things is what you want to use virtualization
> for. On my laptop it is almost purely for demo purposes, although I
> initially set it up to run some things that could not be done under
> Linux, even through WINE. Initially, I needed RealPlayer for my wife,
> but RealPlayer Superpass needs Active X and Windows explorer. While
> Windows explorer works ok under WINE and CrossoverOffice, RealPlayer 10
> does not run under WINE. Initially I ran VMWare Server, but its
> performance was lacking, and later I used Virtualbox where the
> performance was much better. While I can cite some specific cases where
> virtualization improved performance (or more specifically througput),
> you are going to take a bit of performance hit.
>
> At home I use KVM/QEMU to run both Windows 7 and Windows XP. My primary
> need is to run Citrix which has some issue natively under fedora 11.
> Additionally, currently I'm not getting any sound under the guest OS,
> but I used to get sound on XP, and I think it is more configurational,
> and I just have not yet fixed it because it is not important.
>
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One area where virtualization,  especially virtual Windows machines is a 
pain is licensing. Try reading Microsoft's licenses and how they apply 
to virtual machines. As best as I could tell you need to use their 
special volume licensed software to be compliant. IANAL so your mileage 
will vary.

-Alex



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