ubuntu virtualization options when no HW virt support?

[Loïc Grenié]

2010/6/27 Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>:
[snip]
> KVM just uses hardware virtualisation to run VMs on x86-64 CPUs with
> Intel VT or AMD-V. This is relatively easy, but the programmers needed
> a whole set of code to create & manage VMs. They took this code from
> QEMU since it was right there & FOSS.

    KVM is independent of x86-64.

[snip]
> Summary: if you want to run arbitrary PC OSs under desktop Linux, your
> choices are:
>  - FOSS VirtualBox (free, in Ubuntu repos, limited)
>  - full Virtualbox (freeware, Ubuntu packages available on website)
>  - VMware Player (freeware, Ubuntu packages available on website, limited)
>
> Or pay for VMware Workstation.
>
> If you want to virtualise servers, or on a server, and thus don't
> really care too much about friendly GUIs, your options are:
>  - Xen (FOSS - needs h/w virt'n to run arbitrary OS)
>  - KVM (FOSS - needs h/w virt'n to run at all)
>  - VMware Server (closed source freeware, needs no h/w virt'n)

    Just curious: why do you make KVM a "server" solution ?

       Thanks,

          Loïc