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Re: [LUG] dont run windows anywhere ever

 

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've done Xen a couple of times.. it's the only VM platform I had
working properly (except VMware)

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