Eli Billauer wrote: > Hello, > > > I've been playing around with my new Fedora 12 computer (Intel i7 quad > core) for a few days, mainly for the purpose of making educated > decisions about how to virtualize two old computers, which I want to get > rid of. They are running Windows 2000 and Redhat 7.3. I only tested the > Windows part (Linux should be much easier). Fedora 12 is the host, of > course. > > I've looked at QEMU/KVM vs. VMWare. I want to share my experiences and > insights with you, because I don't like the bottom line, which is the > VMWare is better for almost all home purposes (I'm not talking about > cloud servers and such). Which makes me wonder: Is VMWare a honey trap, > or is it currently the preferred choice?
i didn't try KVM - i did try XEN - and it, too, works in a similar )Crappy) manner. i didn't compare it "head to head" with vmplayer on the same machine - but it is quite very slagish. with xen, i did manage to find some... driver(?) that made the mouse pointer work much better then without it - did you look for something similar for KVM? i think that the main issue, is that vmplayer is a down-sized version of a commercial GUI program (vmware workstation) - and these programs tend to be far more polished then "technology-oriented" programs, such as qemu. it could be that since KVM is "commercial" meant mostly for desktops - they'll have better support in the future - assuming there is no collision between the commercialization-efforts of nucleolus/redhat and the free-software-ness of the KVM kernel part. --guy _______________________________________________ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux