On Sunday 22 May 2011, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: > On Sunday 22 May 2011, naibed wrote: > > Need to have a virtual machine to use as test platform. > > > > OS is Debian 6.0 on 32bit arch. Let me know any free and stable > > software which you have used for such purpose > > I use VirtualBox for all my test VMs. Works fine on Debian from > packages, gives me all the features I need.
To expand a bit, the other virtualisation technology I've used is Xen. That works well for production servers and seems cleaner for that environment to me for some reason. On the other hand, it's a PITA to setup. VirtualBox is easy for testing since: - It doesn't need a a special kernel. - It doesn't need any changes in the networking (Xen needs bridging). - It has one kernel module that does everything kernel-level. - It has GUI management if you like that kind of stuff. - It has VNC built-in. So my preference (in general) is VirtualBox for testing and Xen for production. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur [email protected] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
