Re: Virtualization preferences

["Jerry Feldman-2" <user=4@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:17:44 -0400 
Kent Borg <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> Jerry Feldman wrote: 
> > My preferred choices are Xen and Virtualbox. 
> 
> I am liking Virtualbox these days.  I used to be a fan of Xen, I was 
> using it for running Linux guests on a Linux host, but then I was burned 
> once by their tight coupling between guest and host versions.  I 
> upgraded the host kernel (I think it was) and my guests were all 
> broken.  Maybe my gripe is with paravirtualization more than it is with Xen. 
> 
> I have not tried Xen on a CPU with virtual extensions, though I notice 
> the Xen Wikipedia page says "As of Xen 3.0.2, the list of supported 
> unmodified guests is limited to certain versions of Windows (incl. XP) 
> and Linux.".  So I fear the "para" negatives are not entirely gone.