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Re: [PLUG] Virtualization on Linux
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JP,
Since you are already using VMware products why not put the Windows VM
on VMware Player. It is more up to date than server 1 and works on
machines without hardware virt. Claims to be Ubuntu 9.10 compatible too.
You may have to manually edit the config file or create it (or the whole
VM) in Workstation. Your current VM might also work in Player.
Scott
JP Vossen wrote:
> I'm using VMware Server 1.x for various things, especially including
> running Windows full-screen local-console so my Mom can use it while not
> actually running Windows on bare-metal. While it has always been a
> giant PITA to get to compile, I have been unable to get it to work with
> Ubuntu 9.10, and I assume 10.04+ will only get worse. I dislike VMware
> Server 2.x because of the terrible web "GUI" interface.
>
> I've had various minor, but for my purposes show-stopping problems with
> VirtualBox, and sine I loath Oracle in general and am afraid they will
> just kill VBox in particular (see also Virtual Iron [1]), that is no
> longer an option anyway.
>
> I'd love to use something that this kind of thing won't happen to, and
> that Just Works with Ubuntu, so I did some poking around in the Lucid
> repos on my beta VM [2]. Also, two of the machines I will need to do
> this on do NOT support H/W virtualzation per the "egrep
> "flags.*:.*(svm|vmx)" /proc/cpuinfo" test.
>
> This is what I found.
>
> # QEMU & KVM are now combined
> qemu-kvm-extras - fast processor emulator binaries for non-x86 architectures
> qemu-kvm - Full virtualization on i386 and amd64 hardware
>
> # GUIs & helpers
> aqemu - Qt4 front-end for QEMU and KVM
> # http://aqemu.sourceforge.net/
> qemulator - a solution for easy setup and management of qemu
> # http://qemulator.createweb.de/
> qemu-launcher - GTK+ front-end to QEMU computer emulator
> qtemu - graphical user interface for QEMU
> # http://qtemu.org/
> ubuntu-virt-mgmt - Common packages useful for managing virtual machines
> graphically
> virt-manager - desktop application for managing virtual machines
> # http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/
>
> # Will not use, but FYI
> virtualbox-ose - x86 virtualization solution - base binaries
> # I assume still no USB in "OSE"
> vboxgtk - simple GTK+ frontend for VirtualBox
>
>
> What does everyone else use? Anyone use or like any of the "helper"
> apps? Any other comments?
>
> Thanks,
> JP
> ___________________
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_iron
> [2] My personal VM test bed runs on VMware Workstation, and I'm actually
> pretty happy with that, but it is not free and not suitable for the use
> above.
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> JP Vossen, CISSP |:::======| http://bashcookbook.com/
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