Re: SOT: virtualization

2009-12-23 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 03:51 -0700, Technomage wrote: Craig White wrote: On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 18:46 -0700, Technomage wrote: Fedora: forces you to run SELINUX regardless of whether you need it or not this is simply wrong. On Fedora 12 (the latest version released a

Re: SOT: virtualization

2009-12-18 Thread Technomage
Craig White wrote: On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 18:46 -0700, Technomage wrote: Fedora: forces you to run SELINUX regardless of whether you need it or not this is simply wrong. On Fedora 12 (the latest version released a few weeks ago)... I was running fedora 11 and even with the

Re: SOT: virtualization

2009-12-16 Thread Paul Mooring
Where I work we run Xen, VMware, and Virtualbox, and in my experience all 3 are good at different things. If you intended to use a workstation as the host (by that I mean you want to use X and a desktop environment on the linux host) I think virtualbox is the way to go it's really easy to use/set

SOT: virtualization

2009-12-15 Thread Trent Shipley
(SOT: somewhat off topic) I want to set up a Windows lab computer. I want to work with XP, Vista, and Win7. On an MS list it was suggested that I use virtualization rather than multiboot. I'm thinking I'd run a Linux distro natively, run FOSS virtualization software on Linux, and run the

Re: SOT: virtualization

2009-12-15 Thread Lisa Kachold
VMWARE: ESXi if you have hardware that will run it? http://www.vmware.com/products/esxi/ Vmware player is great also on whatever your dual core OS is? Existing images can be downloaded and tried http://www.vmware.com/products/player/ OpenVZ is nice also? http://wiki.openvz.org/ XEN is

Re: SOT: virtualization

2009-12-15 Thread Technomage
Trent, of the major distro's, debian 5.0 has the least troubles right now and is therefore, probably the best for your needs currently. Others like Fedora or Opensuse have package dependency problems and are a little more difficult to develop on properly. Fedora: forces you to run SELINUX

Re: SOT: virtualization

2009-12-15 Thread Lisa Kachold
Second that with OpenSuse! On 12/15/09, Technomage technomage.ha...@gmail.com wrote: Trent, of the major distro's, debian 5.0 has the least troubles right now and is therefore, probably the best for your needs currently. Others like Fedora or Opensuse have package dependency problems and

Re: SOT: virtualization

2009-12-15 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 18:46 -0700, Technomage wrote: Fedora: forces you to run SELINUX regardless of whether you need it or not this is simply wrong. On Fedora 12 (the latest version released a few weeks ago)... # head -n 5 /etc/selinux/config # This file controls the state of SELinux on