Re: [!! SPAM] RE: Virtualization recommendation

2009-09-17 Thread Lev Olshvang
Hi Gilad, Have you heard of KVM-lite ? (KVM that doesn't require virtualization features from processor) In what sense "KVM rocks", do we have any benchmark of KVM versus VirtualBox ? I saw a post from Ingo Molnar stating that context number of context switches in KVM reduced dramatically

Re: [!! SPAM] RE: Virtualization recommendation

2009-09-17 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Hi, We developed and support for years now a software product for tech support centers that uses KVM as a hypervisor. One installation at Canon in Japan runs 35 concurrent Vista/win2k/xp and soon Win7 instances. Each session is about a minute long (it is used by tech support people to help them

Re: [!! SPAM] RE: Virtualization recommendation

2009-09-17 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Kvm lite is not very interesting. As for VirtualBox - if you want to run one VM, especially if you are on win or mac, virtualbox is really cool. Whenthe amount of VMs is measured in tens, id use KVM. Gilad Amos Shapira wrote: 2009/9/16 Arie Skliarouk sklia...@gmail.com sklia...@gmail.com:

Re: [!! SPAM] RE: Virtualization recommendation

2009-09-16 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Amos Shapira wrote: 2009/9/16 Arie Skliarouk sklia...@gmail.com: Yes. We use xen heavily on CentOS 5 at work and am pretty excited that RH 5.4 is out with KVM preview tech, I'm not an expert but got the impression that KVM might get things better than Xen eventually. Don't mean to dis

Re: [!! SPAM] RE: Virtualization recommendation

2009-09-16 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/9/16 Gilad Ben-Yossef gi...@codefidence.com: Don't mean to dis  Xen or anyone, but... You can drop the eventually. KVM rocks :-) Care to give more details? Especially compared to Xen? I googled for kvm vs. xen but all the links I found so far talk about KVM's potential (and are a bit

Re: [!! SPAM] RE: Virtualization recommendation

2009-09-16 Thread Oron Peled
On Wednesday, 16 בSeptember 2009 00:24:16 Amos Shapira wrote: Yes. We use xen heavily on CentOS 5 at work and am pretty excited that RH 5.4 is out with KVM preview tech, I'm not an expert but got the impression that KVM might get things better than Xen eventually. If your CPU support

Re: [!! SPAM] RE: Virtualization recommendation

2009-09-16 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/9/16 Oron Peled o...@actcom.co.il: On Wednesday, 16 בSeptember 2009 00:24:16 Amos Shapira wrote: Yes. We use xen heavily on CentOS 5 at work and am pretty excited that RH 5.4 is out with KVM preview tech, I'm not an expert but got the impression that KVM might get things better than Xen

Re: [!! SPAM] RE: Virtualization recommendation

2009-09-16 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Sep 16, 2009, at 3:38 PM, Amos Shapira wrote: I've never considered VirtualBox (or VMware, for that matter) for anything except that it's included in Ubuntu for desktop, and it had a very easy interface to setup Windows quickly. I saw the reference to libvirt in the RHEL 5.4 announcement

Re: [!! SPAM] RE: Virtualization recommendation

2009-09-16 Thread Ohad Levy
How is KVM as a desktop? I mean in VMWare there is a special windows display driver which makes it look very natural (and resizeable) For a server I would also support KVM, the only bad thing I have to say about it is its buggy PXE rom stack. Ohad 2009/9/16 Gilad Ben-Yossef

Re: [!! SPAM] RE: Virtualization recommendation

2009-09-16 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Wednesday 16 September 2009 15:53:10 geoffrey mendelson wrote: On Sep 16, 2009, at 3:38 PM, Amos Shapira wrote: I've never considered VirtualBox (or VMware, for that matter) for anything except that it's included in Ubuntu for desktop, and it had a very easy interface to setup Windows

Re: [!! SPAM] RE: Virtualization recommendation

2009-09-15 Thread David Suna
4GB should be enough. Right? David Suna da...@davidsconsultants.com ronys wrote: Hi, Here's another vote for VirtualBox. Using it in both Windows host / Linux guest, Linux(64bit) / Linux(32bit) and Linux / Windows. Integration with host is excellent. Support is also quick responsive.

Re: [!! SPAM] RE: Virtualization recommendation

2009-09-15 Thread Michael Ben-Nes
For me it works well with: Ubuntu host + winXP 1GB guest + win7 1.5GB guest ( at the same time ). -- Michael Ben-Nes - Internet Consultant and Director. http://www.epoch.co.il - weaving the Net. Cellular: 054-4848113

Re: [!! SPAM] RE: Virtualization recommendation

2009-09-15 Thread Arie Skliarouk
Hi, Depends. Both Ubuntu and RedHat push KVM as the virtualization solution. IMHO it is the fastest from the three. It is also most open one. The free version of VirtualBox has no USB support but has excellent 3D support, so it is ideal for games. VMWare is ok, but I don't like it's integration

Re: [!! SPAM] RE: Virtualization recommendation

2009-09-15 Thread Ohad Levy
I'm using VMPlayer with Ubuntu running windows in a virtual machine and I didn't need to do anything special to get audio running I also like it very much that you can resize on the fly the virtual client, very useful if you need to connect your server to an external beamer for presentations etc.

Re: [!! SPAM] RE: Virtualization recommendation

2009-09-15 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/9/16 Arie Skliarouk sklia...@gmail.com: Hi, Depends. Both Ubuntu and RedHat push KVM as the virtualization solution. IMHO it is the fastest from the three. It is also most open one. Yes. We use xen heavily on CentOS 5 at work and am pretty excited that RH 5.4 is out with KVM preview