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On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:32:11 +0100 Simon Waters wrote: > Tom Potts wrote: > > http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/790/1051790/windows-key-hacking-os > > I think we might more correctly title this "don't use immature > virtualization technologies". > > I'm interested if anyone has a no nonsense virtualization solution > that they trust. > > I have UML - which sucks. > > I've got a VZ host, and discovered it wouldn't run one of the apps I > wanted efficiently (to do with memory mapped files). > > QEMU is presumably complete, but I've had issues making it work with > the host systems screen/keyboard/mouse combination. Clearly it isn't > working with these things at the right level if it needs to worry > about such details. > > The best I've seen was Virtual PC images Microsoft shipped as Browser > testing environments, where you can fire up IE8 on Vista inside > Windows XP, and see if your web app works as expected. But I never > tried anything complicated (beyond what runs in a browser), so no > idea how performance compares. > > I haven't tried Xen, or a load of others in serious test mode. > > Simon I'm just about to roll-out VMWare ESXi on our server with SBS2008 and Debian as guest OSs. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html