all the possibilities for emulation/virtualization under fedora?

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 19 10:40:23 UTC 2008


On Jan 19, 2008 10:18 AM, Brian Chadwick <brianchad at westnet.com.au> wrote:
> >   for the sake of a presentation i'm giving, i want to list all of the
> > options for emulation and virtualization under fedora.  i won't be
> > explaining them all in horrendous detail (it's only an hour), but i at
> > least want to hit the high points, so i'm just trying to create a list
> > -- stuff like QEMU, VirtualBox, VMwarePlayer, JumpBox, KVM, Xen ...
> > and on and on.
> >
> >   what's worth having on that list?  after it's all over, i'll post a
> > summary (and perhaps a few simple recipes) to the wiki.  thanks.
> >
> I havent used QEMU, though a lot of things are based around it. I used
> to use VMWare. Then I found VirtualBox. FOSS and easy to use. I give it
> full marks. Xen and KVM require (as far as i know) special CPU support,
> and as I have an old Athloin XP3200+, I cant use them.
>
> But yeah ... put VirtualBox on your list for sure.

Is VirtualBox superior to VMware Server?

Paul




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