Re: Virtualization preferences

["Kent Borg" <user=107@nabble.blu.org>]

 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. 


-kb, the Kent who sees value in full virtualization. 

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