[Haifux] QEMU/KVM vs. VMWare: The beauty and the beast

2010-01-10 Thread Eli Billauer
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

Re: [Haifux] QEMU/KVM vs. VMWare: The beauty and the beast

2010-01-10 Thread guy keren
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

Re: [Haifux] QEMU/KVM vs. VMWare: The beauty and the beast

2010-01-10 Thread Oron Peled
On Sunday, 10 בJanuary 2010 21:06:01 Eli Billauer wrote: Which makes me wonder: Is VMWare a honey trap, or is it currently the preferred choice? It looks like there are solutions for converting VMWare disk images to KVM (Qemu) disk images. Few (untested) links: 1.

Re: [Haifux] QEMU/KVM vs. VMWare: The beauty and the beast

2010-01-10 Thread Eli Billauer
guy keren wrote: 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? QEMU addresses the mouse pointer on Windows issue by adding a touch panel device. The result is still pretty

Re: [Haifux] QEMU/KVM vs. VMWare: The beauty and the beast

2010-01-10 Thread boazg
have you tried virtualbox? it's GPL, and i've had some good experience with it. On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 21:06, Eli Billauer e...@billauer.co.il 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

Re: [Haifux] QEMU/KVM vs. VMWare: The beauty and the beast

2010-01-10 Thread Sorana Fraier
the only drawback of virtualbox open source is that it doesn't allow to attach a usb. The binary version allows that. On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:01 AM, boazg boaz.ge...@gmail.com wrote: have you tried virtualbox? it's GPL, and i've had some good experience with it. On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at

Re: [Haifux] QEMU/KVM vs. VMWare: The beauty and the beast

2010-01-10 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Sorana Fraier sf10...@gmail.com wrote: the only drawback of virtualbox open source is that it doesn't allow to attach a usb. The binary version allows that. No. It does. Did quite happily now. USB 1.1, as far as I can recall, but for me it was quite enough.

Re: [Haifux] QEMU/KVM vs. VMWare: The beauty and the beast

2010-01-10 Thread Eli Billauer
Sorana Fraier wrote: which laptop you bought? I cooked a desktop. 4 GB of RAM (to be expanded), 1 TB hard disk and a Gigabyte motherboard. why don't you try vmware workstation or ESXi? esxi is free. http://www.vmware.com/products/esxi/ Why should I? In particular, ESXi is for server