SOT: virtualization

[Paul Mooring]

Where I work we run Xen, VMware, and Virtualbox, and in my experience
all 3 are good at different things.  If you intended to use a
workstation as the host (by that I mean you want to use X and a desktop
environment on the linux host) I think virtualbox is the way to go it's
really easy to use/set up and integrates well with a running system. 
For a seperate VM server if your hardware supports I'd use VMware ESXi
especially for windows guests where it seems to me vmware gets much
better performance than xen, and if your hardware doesn't support it I
would  still vmware server 2.0 over xen for windows guests.  By the way
vmware server is installed on an existing linux distro (I generally use
gentoo), will run on any hardware and is generally managed through a web
interface, where ESXi installs directly on the hardware but only
supported hardware and is generally managed by a windows only GUI tool.

Trent Shipley wrote:
> (SOT: somewhat off topic)
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> 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.
>
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> I'm thinking I'd run a Linux distro natively,  run FOSS virtualization
> software on Linux, and run the three MS OSes as guests.
>
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> What is a good Linux distro?  Will I need a server distribution or can I
> run a desktop distribution?
>
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> What are FOSS choices for the virtualization software?
>
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