KVM vs XEN vs VMware

Scott Lockwood scott at guppylog.com
Thu May 3 17:10:34 UTC 2007


I've found XEN is the easiest to setup. I'm working on documentation on
how to properly setup a xen box now, in fact.

On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 00:35 +0900, Tomoki Taniguchi wrote:
> I am curious about which of the the following virtualization options
> people recommend under Feisty?
> 1) KVM
> 2) XEN
> 3) VMware
> 
> Please take into account I will be running this on a laptop with 1.5GB of RAM.
> Primary use will be to run WinXP
> I may want to use it to test other OSs (linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD)
> 
> Is it possible to access and use peripherals which the host OS
> does not support?
> 
> 
> Thank you for your help,
> Tomoki Taniguchi
> 
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Regards,
Scott Lockwood





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