(2009年09月25日 05:51), Allen Meyers さんは書きました: > Good Morning: > > Starting all over. new 160 GB HD 2 Linux OS Ubuntu 9.04 and lenny 5.0. > 2 huge partitions with still a big unallocated undecided one. > The only thing totally sure of this point Linux all way and hope some > patient experienced user will take this 77 year old and lead him into > virtualbox >
77? Wow. I'm impressed. I know you from NTLUG's mailing list. Okay, first thing I would do is choose a host OS. Preferably the host OS should be well supported by the non-OSE VBox just to keep things simple. (The OSE, or Open Source Edition, is still lacking some features that desktop users like... well, "feature" in my case as USB support is pretty important to me.) I would also be inclined to ensure that your selected host OS is one that is proven to be the most stable, reliable and least changing. From there, you will want to build your VMs and install your favorite OSes within. In my case, I use Fedora 11 as my host (I know, I'm not following my own suggestion) and I run WinXP in a VM for access to applications or resources that I wouldn't otherwise have access to. (For example, my Logitech remote control utilities or supporting people who use Windows over the phone or over the internet... I need to run Windows somewhere if I am to help anyone.) So in a way, I am following my own suggestion in that Linux is my most stable and reliable host even though lately, updates keep causing me to log out or reboot every week or so. When I run Virtualization for servers, I always use CentOS for the host. Within, I will use anything that is called for. On my server, I have two VMs. One is SME server which I use for my general network services such as mail, web, DNS, authentication and so on, and the other is ESVA, my spam filter appliance. I also test other server oriented OSes there. Sadly, I have not yet converted that server to VirtualBox and am still running VMWare Server 1.x. I have had that machine running like that for a rather long time and it works rather well. Perhaps if I am faced with reloading things from scratch, I will consider VirtualBox for server side virtualization, but I would have a lot of things to consider and learn about in preparation such as the matter of remote console access and a backup and restore procedure. I have those issues nailed down with VMWare Server. Not so much with VirtualBox. _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
