VM software for personal use?
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From: Mark Allums on 24 Apr 2010 05:10 On 4/23/2010 11:31 AM, Richard Lawrence wrote: > Hi all, > P.S. Apologies if this question seems too far off-topic for > debian-user. If there's a better place to ask this question, I'd like > to know that, too. Virtualbox meets more of your individual criteria than anything else I can think of, but the open source edition lacks USB. I would consider the non-OSE version for now, but only if I were prepared to migrate to something else, later, depending on what Oracle may choose to to with it, now that they own Sun. Some version of QEMU with KVM will always work, but you definitely need the KVM bits, because by itself QEMU is not a speed demon. I enjoy Xen-like hypervisors from an aesthetics point-of-view, but the best ones are not free in any sense. Microsoft's Hyper-V flat-out costs money, and VMware's ESXi comes with too much baggage. Xen itself is still in a state of flux, and though the 2.6.32 kernel version is much more stable than previous versions, I wouldn't call it ready for prime time. Good Luck MAA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4BD2B475.30804(a)allums.com
From: Andrei Popescu on 24 Apr 2010 06:00 On Fri,23.Apr.10, 09:31:45, Richard Lawrence wrote: > > I am looking to run some virtual machines for personal use: I'd like ... > I value: > - free over non-free > - ease of use and good documentation over performance > - installation via apt and reasonable default configuration > - simple networking on commodity hardware > - other basic integration with host OS services (perhaps file sharing, > USB, printing) Except for USB the package virtualbox-ose in Debian will meet all your requirements. (OSE stands for Open Source Edition) If USB is a must you can use the repos from Sun (the USB stuff is non-free). Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
From: Monsieur Louk on 24 Apr 2010 15:10 I'll join the "Virtualbox is what you want/need" wagon.
From: Hugo Vanwoerkom on 24 Apr 2010 15:30 Mark Allums wrote: > On 4/23/2010 11:31 AM, Richard Lawrence wrote: >> Hi all, > >> P.S. Apologies if this question seems too far off-topic for >> debian-user. If there's a better place to ask this question, I'd like >> to know that, too. > > Virtualbox meets more of your individual criteria than anything else I > can think of, but the open source edition lacks USB. I would consider > the non-OSE version for now, but only if I were prepared to migrate to > something else, later, depending on what Oracle may choose to to with > it, now that they own Sun. > > Some version of QEMU with KVM will always work, but you definitely need > the KVM bits, because by itself QEMU is not a speed demon. > > I enjoy Xen-like hypervisors from an aesthetics point-of-view, but the > best ones are not free in any sense. Microsoft's Hyper-V flat-out costs > money, and VMware's ESXi comes with too much baggage. Xen itself is > still in a state of flux, and though the 2.6.32 kernel version is much > more stable than previous versions, I wouldn't call it ready for prime > time. > And I am getting tired of always having to look around for fixes to VMware's server whenever you upgrade your kernel, it appears their Linux attention leaves something to be desired. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/hqvg97$bkp$3(a)dough.gmane.org
From: Andreas Weber on 24 Apr 2010 17:30
Andrei Popescu wrote: > Except for USB the package virtualbox-ose in Debian will meet all your > requirements. (OSE stands for Open Source Edition) > > If USB is a must you can use the repos from Sun (the USB stuff is > non-free). If USB is a must, stick the device in, mount it and open a shared folder in Virtualbox OSE on the mount point for it. That easy. |