SOT: virtualization

[Lisa Kachold]

Second that with OpenSuse!

On 12/15/09, Technomage <technomage.hawke at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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