I've been using Centos Xen VM's on a dedicated development machine and
it's been working well without any problems. When I'm done with the
client's job, just shut down the instance and store away the disk image
on a backup. Didn't do any good when we lost power for half a day after
the hurricane though.
On 9/2/2011 2:51 PM, David Krings wrote:
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VMWare Server is no longer maintained a lot of changes were made to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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