On 9/2/2011 1:23 PM, Yitzchak Schaffer wrote:
I've been using VMware Server (free as in beer) to run Ubuntu VMs on my
laptops for 1+ years. Works great for me.
I have one VM for dev work, and another for staging, which is set up like
production. Easy to create a fresh one to test restoration of backups.
I used to use VMWare Server as well, but found the performance to be dismal.
My previous laptop with 3GB of RAM could barely run dev (1GB) and staging
(512MB) together, plus some essential apps like Thunderbird, browser, IDE.
Which is pretty good, I think. I have a new Sandy Bridge laptop (Latitude,
i5-2520M) with 4GB, and all is good now.
The admin interface is a little slow, but the VM itself is quite fast IMO.
I agree, the admin UI is a total dog, but the VMs are not too shabby, but
compared to VMWare Player it is rather slow.
VMWare Player used to be just that, a tool to play VMs. But while VMWare
Server is no longer maintained a lot of changes were made to VMWare Player,
including the option to create new VMs.
Also, if there is a box available that can be dedicated to VMs then ESX and
Xen as well as Linux KVM are options.
As far as VirtualBox is concerned, I found it to be extremely crash happy.
David
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