David Cook wrote: > VMware/Xen looks like a good one. > > I recognize there are some differences between VMWare (very happy with it) > and Xen (never used it but understand it can be made to virtualize the PCI > bus). > > VirtualPC is from that annoying company in Washington State, right?
I can think of 3 or 4 other active projects that all emulate in some fashion or other. VZ/OpenVZ for linux (and others?) which is older then Xen, but the memory handling method is a bit quirky. There is Parallels for Mac. KVM/QEMU for linux, the kernel module to speed things up for QEMU used to be non-free, but things have changed, KVM is a fork of QEMU to support virtualisation extensions in chips that support it, but since KQEMU is no longer non-free I think they are planning to merge efforts. There is also VirtualBox (http://www.virtualbox.org) which is now fully open source or something, being touted as "now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software." I'm planning to play round with virtualbox later today on dual core WinXP machine that has Intel virtual extentions enabled, no idea if VirtualBox supports this feature at or let alone on Windows. -- Best regards, Duane http://www.freeauth.org - Enterprise Two Factor Authentication http://www.nodedb.com - Think globally, network locally http://www.sydneywireless.com - Telecommunications Freedom http://e164.org - Because e164.arpa is a tax on VoIP "In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip." --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
