[K12OSN] Virtual Machine Advice

[Tim Born]

Mark Goodridge wrote:

> Good Afternoon List,
> Would any of you care to pass on your opinions or experiences with any 
> Virtual Machine software? I'm going to be doing some experiments with 
> various operating systems and I thought I'd try that route.
>
> Thanks

I keep trying to make Xen work, but it's been problematic for me so 
far.  I even went and got one of the new chips with the VT instructions 
in it so I could (theoretically) run Xen with an unmodified OS.  So far 
I'm still trying ...

VMware Server (now free) has been my mainstay for years.  Documentation 
is excellent, reliability is very good, performance is acceptable.

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/xen/
http://www.vmware.com/products/server/

best,
-tim