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On Thursday 06 April 2006 2:05 pm, Bob - BLU wrote: > On 4/6/2006 10:57 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > > The question for the group is should I run XEN as the virtualization > > engine (built in to SuSE 10) or VMWare (vmware player and vmware server > > are now free). > > You can get an evaluation key for vmware workstation, download and play. > > For me, vmware just works, especially for taming ms-windows. You will > want to put as much ram into your laptop as is possible. > > I haven't tried xen yet, or the 'free' vmware server (beta 2). VMWare player and VMWare server are free. I have no problem getting licenses for workstation. I have no need to run Windows. If I had the requirement for Windows, then VMWare would be todays answer. I may try Xen just because it is an OpenSource project and would also be skill building on my part -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
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