SOT: virtualization

[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 regardless of whether you need it or not

Opensuse: tends to run cutting edge ("bleeding edge") packages and will 
tend to break older installs.
Their upgrade system is horribly broken currently, so its not a good 
idea to upgrade older opensuse
systems.

I recently had such problems with opensuse (settings not being 
maintained across reboots, services failing
to start, etc) that I have completely written off this community project 
as anywhere near viable.

Debian does have a "basic developers package setup" that makes it 
relatively easy to setup and maintain a
basic developers environment.

As for vmware, get the server 1.x versions (freely available). they tend 
to have better performance and a
remote console that works. vmware 2.x did away with the remote console 
and is also optimized for use
under windows (as the host OS). I find their web interface clunky and 
very slow to respond. there are also some
features missing in 2.x that were present in 1.x.

Trent Shipley wrote:
> (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 three MS OSes as guests.
>
>
> What is a good Linux distro?  Will I need a server distribution or can I
> run a desktop distribution?
>
>
> What are FOSS choices for the virtualization software?
>
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