[ubuntu-uk] Fed-up with VMWare!

Jacob Mansfield cyberjacob at gmail.com
Fri Aug 27 09:28:27 BST 2010


have you herd about the new M$ virtualisation system

On 27 August 2010 09:23, Kris Douglas <krisdouglas at gmail.com> wrote:

> VMWare is a bit of a pain. We use xenserver at work, it is the dog's
> danglies for what we need. I use VirtualBox on my work desktop tor testing
> stuff though, its nice.
>
> Sent from my Android powered HTC Hero.
>
> On 27 Aug 2010 07:44, "Cornelius Mostert" <corneliusmostert at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi all.
>
> Just to let you know I am FED-UP with VMWare - Server!!
> I have been wrestling with it on Ubuntu and other distros for TOOOOO long
> now!!
> The latest is just the final straw!!
> I have redone my PC to have 10.4 on and loaded VMServer on (with all the
> patches!! I found on the internte to get it installed), but then the Console
> could not be used to open VMs and had to use RDC / VNC etc.
> I have followed numerous "fixes" but none seem to work:
> Downgrade Firefox from 3.6.xx to 3.5.xx did not work
> Extracting and installing the remote console separately did not work
> ETC.
> And then with every new version of FF or Linux kernals / headers you have
> to hope and pray all will reconfigure!!!
>
> Now I am switching to VirtualBox! Hopefully this will provide a solution, I
> am a GUI person so KVM is still a bit too much for me if you have to every
> time make use of a CLI, I guess there are GUIs for it but VirtualBox seems
> to be easy enough to not take too much time of my daily routine.
>
> The big box still run ESXi though...
>
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