Re: kvm (was: VM Ware Player under Debian Lenny AMD64 on laptop)
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 02:51:27PM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> Does kvm support multiple snapshots in a tree-like structure (not only
> linear as VirtualBox) and switching arbitrarily between them, like
> VMware Workstation? That's one feature that prevents me from moving to
> another solution, despite all the trouble to set up VMware and to
> rebuild the modules when a new kernel version is out.
I know the copy on write format has support for snapshot like things.
I have never used them though.
Sounds almost more as a front end GUI issue though. I suspect most if
not all of the needed support is there in kvm and qemu already, or at
least is likely to be added.
The really annoying thing with vmware is that it takes a while when a
new kernel comes out before someone has a patch to make vmware work with
it (and with 2.6.29 removing the export of some page management stuff,
all the old versions of vmware are simply broken and not fixable because
the fix has to go in the binary part, not the source code). I refuse
to work with vmware workstation 6.5+ and server 2.0+ until they give me
back the sane tarball installer. Workstation 6.0 and server 1.0 are of
course broken as of 2.6.29 and not fixable by anyone other than vmware.
Never mind that server 2.0 needs a web browser plugin to use it. Eww.
At least kvm works well now so I don't mind that much anymore.
virt-manager makes a decent gui when needed.
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Len Sorensen
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