On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 02:16:07PM -0400, micah anderson wrote: > On Sun, 01 Aug 2010 08:08:41 -0700, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: > > John Goerzen <jgoer...@complete.org> writes: > > > > > One topic of interest to me is virtualization. We've been using Xen for > > > awhile, and have had some issues with its state in squeeze, and are > > > looking at KVM. There was a big discussion on -devel about this a few > > > months back. I'd be interested in hearing what others are doing with > > > virtualization and where we see it heading in Debian. Is anyone > > > knowledgeable about these things here, and willing to share? > > I'd be interested in this as well, I'm using a hybrid of Xen, > Linux-Vservers, and KVM. I have some understanding of the plans on the > kernel-side and some experiences and problems I've had I'd be interested > in sharing and learning from people. > > m
Over time I've been doing a mixture of Qemu, VirtualBox, and now KVM. Recent updates in VirtualBox (at least in Testing/Sid) allow for running VMs in both VirtualBox and KVM at the same time (previously they conflicted). The nice thing about VirtualBox is that it allows running any OS in it. KVM is limited in what it will run (generally just Linux distributions, AFAIK), but the nice thing is that when it works the OS in the VM runs at about 80% - 85% of native speed. This is why it's nice to be able to run both KVM and VirtualBox at the same time -- so you can get the speed of KVM where it's usable, and use VirtualBox for running the other OSes. -- Chris _______________________________________________ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
