-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkiAPpwACgkQC1NzPRl9qEWg/ACeOMCvqpD1RN3h95MCYR+M/GRv aaAAmwanmHbf1v3FW+XjNGLRGAFIooQi =mE93 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
