On Tuesday, December 30, 2014 07:52:44 PM Mick wrote: > For years now I have been running VirtualBox for testing purposes. > > It has served the users' needs well, but I have set up a new PC and am > wondering if I am missing out on new tricks. The VMs are launched may be a > couple of times a week for an hour or two, to test website designs on > different OS' and browsers. The Vbox does this flawlessly. Is there a > different technology and applications I should consider and how do these > compare with Vbox?
For simple tests where you only briefly run the VM on a desktop/workstation/laptop, VirtualBox generally does the trick. If you actually need to run the VMs for longer periods of time, having a dedicated machine running the likes of Xen or VMWare is a better option. Of the 2, I would recommend Xen. If you don't feel like configuring the whole stack yourself, a pre-build image like "XCP" generally does the trick. This is a free version of the Citrix VM product. The Citrix VM manager works with XCP as well. -- Joost
