On 08/21/2010 07:23 PM, Dustin Kirkland wrote: > On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Mark Shuttleworth<[email protected]> wrote: >> I'd strongly recommend KVM for server applications. > Osama, > > Beyond that, KVM is excellent for desktop virtualization as well. You > can use the "testdrive" utility in Ubuntu to easily fire up desktop or > server ISOs in a KVM virtual machine, without knowing much of anything > about KVM or virtualization. You might also consider virt-manager, > for a wizard-based approach to creating VMs. > > The only time I'd recommend you consider VirtualBox is if you need to > run virtual machines on a system who's CPU does not support VT > extensions. In this case, VirtualBox will be about 10x faster than > KVM. Hi Osama,
For server style workloads => KVM all the way For Desktop style virtualization, both are options, and I'd like to add to what Dustin said, that I'd consider vbox also, if you need the vbox guest additions features (easy shared folders, accelerated display driver, full-screen, audio...) Regards -- Ubuntu-cloud mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-cloud
