Rich Teer wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a couple of situations for which Xen or VirtualBox would > seem to be ideal. The first is for a Win2003 server running M$'s > database, and the second is for running a bookkeeping program > once or twice per month. > > My question is: how do Xen and VirtualBox compare and contrast, > and which would be the better solution for the usage scenarios > described above (and why)? More generally, why would one pick > one technology over the other
Don't forget that there is a 2G max memory limit on VirtualBox and it will only run on one CPU(core), where Xen does not have this problem, but then you get into other problems. By the looks of it you will have to try both to see which one suits you. I have tried Oracle on both setups and in this case I would have to pick (Xen) xVM over VirtualBox mainly due to the memory restriction, but that all depends on your application requirements. Andrew
