[nzlug] VMware x Xen x KVM x Qemu

[Robin Sheat]

On Thursday 03 April 2008 09:59:06 Michael Hutchinson wrote:
> I don't want to comment too much on the other V software's because I
> don't want to be too down on them. But let me put it this way, I
> wouldn't put them in a production environment, yet, which was my point
> originally about the maturity of the software. I do hope they will get
> to that stage, and provide commercial competition for VMWare.
On the other hand, vmware is a pain in the neck in a non-production 
environment at the moment. By not supporting the 2.6.24 kernel without a 
sequence of patching, it's hardly out of the box usable. Reason #432 why I 
avoid non-free software as much as possible: up-to-dateness tends to suck. 
(sorry, lost 3 or 4 hours the other day to figuring this one out. Turns out 
once you've compiled, patched, compiled, you need to compile again before it 
all works)

Whereas with virtualbox, on Hardy it's pulling in a kernel that isn't properly 
out yet, so it's ahead of its time ;)

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