Re: virtual machine choices in Debian
H.S. wrote:
Hello,
Many months ago I had first installed a virtual machine, VMWare. I used
it for a few months and then never touched. IIRC, it was free for
students back then.
This week I looked it up again (I still have the virtual machines
installed) and wanted to reinstall the new version of VMWare Desktop. I
noticed that it is not free anymore but comes with a 30 day trial feature.
So, what free and preferably open source choices do we have for virtual
machines in Debian? Pros and cons based on your experiences will be
appreciated.
Thanks.
->HS
If you're going to be scripting the virtual machines and doing a lot of
fancy image construction/manipulation I'd recommend qemu. It's on-disk
file format is very flexible and easy to customize.
Otherwise, if you're just looking for something to run Windows under a
Linux GUI environment, I recommend VirtualBox.
-david
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