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Re: [LUG] dont run windows anywhere ever

 

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.

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