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Virtualization in Linux: a Review of Four Software Choices

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 8th Feb 2008 20:39 UTC, submitted by Nemilar

This week Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, announced a partnership with Parallels, maker of the Virtualization products Parallels Workstation and Parallels Desktop for Mac. This article compares four virtualization products available for Linux: the free, open source x86 emulator Qemu; the closed-but-free versions of VirtualBox and VMware-Server, and the commercial Parallels Workstation.

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Xen?

by ikeX on Fri 8th Feb 2008 21:00 UTC

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2007-03-28

Where's Xen it this summary? I thought it is kinda important virtualization technology.

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RE: Xen?

by geezer on Fri 8th Feb 2008 22:05 in reply to "Xen?"

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2007-09-23

And KVM?

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RE[2]: Xen?

by Clinton on Fri 8th Feb 2008 22:16 in reply to "RE: Xen?"

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2005-07-05

Both Xen and KVM should be there. I don't particularly like either one because they are too big a pain to get working correctly, but nonetheless, they should be there since, of course, my opinion of them matters very little.

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RE[2]: Xen?

by elsewhere on Sat 9th Feb 2008 06:50 in reply to "RE: Xen?"

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2005-07-13

And KVM?

Qemu can utilize KVM if it's available, and KVM utilizes Qemu userspace tools, so it's kind of one and the same from the user experience POV.

Having used both, I'd say virtualbox still wins, but that's just me.

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RE: Xen?

by Ventajou on Sat 9th Feb 2008 01:33 in reply to "Xen?"

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2006-10-31

His test box is a P4 2.6GHz, afaik Xen won't work with it because the processor doesn't have the VT extensions.

At least that's the error message I got when I tried to use it.

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