On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Tamas Karpati <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for your toughts. Following your suggestion I'm going > to evaluate VB while experimenting a bit more with WS. > I think I'll let them compete.
If you're going to consider something new I'd certainly look at KVM as well (libvirt/virt-manager/etc). I can't pretend to have done a full-feature comparison between the various options, but the obvious advantage of KVM is that it is in the vanilla kernel and fully open-source. Wrappers like virt-manager give you a workstation-like presentation but all the guts are fully command-line controllable and use standard kernel features. I don't know if it supports snapshotting of running systems, however (ie including RAM/hardware/etc state). I don't know what your exact needs are, but obviously being 100% FOSS gives you a lot of options you won't have with any of the proprietary stuff. If for some reason a kernel update breaks it you can complain on lkml and watch it get fixed fast or at the very least get some entertainment as Linus flames somebody to a crisp. -- Rich
