Fedora 10 Virtualization Question

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Mon Dec 8 02:15:21 UTC 2008


Robert L Cochran wrote:
> I want to install Fedora 10 as a host OS on a system that has an Intel 
> P9500 processor, which provides Intel Virtualization Technology and 
> Intel 64. I want to use the virtualization features in Fedora 10 to 
> create Windows XP and Windows Vista virtual machines, with equal or 
> better performance than what VMWare can do. I also want to be able to 
> back up the virtual machines I create to an external device so that I 
> can use them in other boxes.
> 
> Is this possible?
> 
Yes, with KVM at least. As long as you are running plain client machines the 
networking should be fine, although issues with "calling home" have been 
mentioned elsewhere.

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Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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