> Me like vmware lots. rpms are available on their website, so fedora should be > ok. > The binary installer works pretty well on most things... ubuntu - the one > before > feisty, debian stable, CentOS 4 32 bit, CentOS 5 64 bit at least.
Ditto... I have moved towards vmware on linux for virtualising some of the stuff at work for windows2003, windows XP and Linux clients.. Solid as a rock as long as you have resource on the box. (ie: lots of ram) There are two XP virtual machines using USB for software dongles which work fine. They are both critical applications, and after getting them going there have been no issues. (after some weirdness with the USB dongle drivers on one of the virtual XP's) But (There's always a but). We do not use the linux hosts themselves for anything. They are headless appliance servers mounted in a rack. Once vmware is running, the host machine will only use accessed if we need to shut it down. IMHO Using virtualisation tools on a desktop PC makes them just are liable as anything else running on it, and potentially exposes the virtual machines to any sillyness you like to inflict on the PC. For virtualising a desktop on a desktop, qemu or vmware will give you similar results at the end of the day. If you want a reliable 'server' solution based on Linux use vmware. (If you're serious, use ESX, or W2008 hypervisor) Just my 2c, as always. Cheers, Me.
