[nlug] Re: State of Open Source Virtualization .. not a rant or flame war

2008-11-08 Thread Rob Huffstedtler
I would assume you are talking about the processor extensions like Intel VT (for IA32) and VT-i (for IA64) or AMD-V (I think that's their name for the concept). As I'm sure you know since you are probably using the same laptop as I am, the Dell D830s don't come with a processor that supports it.

[nlug] Re: State of Open Source Virtualization .. not a rant or flame war

2008-11-08 Thread JMJ
Ken Barber wrote: I once knew a developmentally-disabled individual So... he was a Java developer? ;-) JMJ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups NLUG group. To post to this group, send email to

[nlug] Re: State of Open Source Virtualization .. not a rant or flame war

2008-11-08 Thread Andrew Farnsworth
Actually Rob, I do almost all my virtualization on my Macbook which does support the Intel VT extensions. Also, my client work laptop which I use much more than my company laptop supports the Intel VT extensions. I admit I have been doing virtualization much more for personal reasons

[nlug] Re: State of Open Source Virtualization .. not a rant or flame war

2008-11-07 Thread t35t0r
1. VMWare isn't open source. It's the hands-down leader in We used VMWare Workstation to virtualize WinXP in RHEL5 for one of our clients. Helped him to kill two birds with one stone. 2. Xen. I am mostly familiar with Xen on Fedora/CentOS/RHEL. It's quite nice. I use it quite a lot at

[nlug] Re: State of Open Source Virtualization .. not a rant or flame war

2008-11-07 Thread andrew mcelroy
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Evan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This just popped up on /. (as im sure many of you frequent the page also..) it seems to fit in line with this thread.. http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/08/11/07/1535235.shtml Yeah that is a pretty nifty feat they

[nlug] Re: State of Open Source Virtualization .. not a rant or flame war

2008-11-07 Thread Andrew Farnsworth
Performance of virtual machines can be fairly significantly improved if you have hardware that specifically supports it and virtualization software (a hypervisor) that does as well. I read a fairly recent article on this about a week ago but cannot find it now. I'll post it when I find it

[nlug] Re: State of Open Source Virtualization .. not a rant or flame war

2008-11-06 Thread Chris McQuistion
I've used VMWare, in the past, and I currently use Virtual Iron, because it has fairly simple administration and is far cheaper than VMWare, if you want the bells and whistles. The big reasons to use VMWare or Virtual Iron (in my opinion) is the nice gui administration tools and their ability to

[nlug] Re: State of Open Source Virtualization .. not a rant or flame war

2008-11-06 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
I like VirtualBox. www.virtualbox.org They have a rather good enterprise solution as well. On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Chris McQuistion [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I've used VMWare, in the past, and I currently use Virtual Iron, because it has fairly simple administration and is far cheaper

[nlug] Re: State of Open Source Virtualization .. not a rant or flame war

2008-11-06 Thread Mark J Bailey
One more thing that might be worth noting. I had started out making the jump to VMware Server 2.0 on a 32bit CentOS 5.2 install on a Core 2 Duo box with 3gb RAM. I had access to another Core 2 Duo box with 4gb RAM. Under 32bit OS, you are limited to just over 3gb RAM usable. I had read

[nlug] Re: State of Open Source Virtualization .. not a rant or flame war

2008-11-06 Thread David R. Wilson
I have used VMWare in the past. That was because the platform that development work was being done on was very unstable. With VMWare at least when something crashes you can take the image that just blew up or the earlier image and start again without the 'you moved your mouse please reload'