Virtualization recommendation

dsr at tao.merseine.nu dsr at tao.merseine.nu
Thu Apr 6 11:03:57 EDT 2006


On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 10:57:35AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> I just bought a new laptop that arrived last night - HP NX6125 with AMD 
> Turion-64 ML-37.
> 
> I plan to run SuSE 10.0 as my primary OS and using virtualization, I will 
> run either Ubuntu and/or Fedora Core 5 as guest OS.
> 
> The question for the group is should I run XEN as the virtualization engine 
> (built in to SuSE 10) or VMWare (vmware player and vmware server are now 
> free). 

Xen is faster; VMWare is more user-friendly. SuSE 10 may make
Xen user-friendly-enough for you.

-dsr-



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