Re: virtual machine choices in Debian
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On 2008-07-17 22:48, H.S. wrote:
> 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.
I've been running VMware some time ago, but it required constant
reconfiguration, because it couldn't live with the ever changing
ethernet connections of my laptop.
- From there I went to qemu as the free alternative within debian at the
time. At the time however, it turned out that it was rather complicated
to exchange data between guest and host. In my scenario practically all
modifications to files would lead to data loss. I filed a bug, but the
only reaction from the maintainers was to decrease the severity level to
non-RC [1]. From this experience, I decided that qemu is unusable for me
personally.
I switched to virtualbox-ose (on lenny). It's quite user friendly and
intuitive and I haven't had any issues.
I have to admit that I don't use VMs as much as used to, because I try
harder to avoid proprietary data formats and software and because wine
works now for some software that would require 'real windoze' some time
ago.
HTH, YMMV,
Johannes
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=419929
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