Virtualization

[Tom Smith]

Bernard Peek wrote:

> In message <20060301092737.K5934 at borg.org>, Kent Borg 
> <kentborg at borg.org> writes
>
>> On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 11:39:24AM +0100, Sebastian Gil wrote:
>>
>>> Take a look on this in the wiki
>>>
>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/VMwarePlayerAndQemu
>>>
>>> You can download vmware player (it's free, but you can't create new 
>>> virtual
>>> machines)
>>> Use qemu to create the virtual machines...
>>
>>
>> Recently vmware "server" has been made free.  Register and download
>> from vmware.com, get an e-mail with your key, install.  I haven't used
>> it much, but it works, allows the creation of new virtual machines.
>
>
> The free version is a beta release. I tried it and it definitely runs 
> Ubuntu.

Yes, it does. Ubuntu is "officially" supported, both as a host and 
guest. I'm in the process of implementing a VMware Server using Ubuntu 
as a host and it works pretty well, with the exception of some disk I/O 
issues I'm trying to work out. The only downside is that there is no 
guaranteed support as it's still considered a beta product. VMware 
expects to offer support contracts in Q2 of 96 (when they expect VMware 
Server to come out of Beta testing).

In the end, though, when Xen is able to run Windows (Q3 or Q4 of 06, 
according the XenSources) I'll likely switch to using it. The only 
downside to this is that it's hardware dependent if you want to run 
Windows--it uses Intel's VT technology to allow Windows to run within Xen.