David Baron wrote:
Qemu will run most anything and
without the need of guest-modules which may or may not be available for the
target guest or may or may not install their successfully. Qemu presents
standard "hardware".
Qemu is also dog slow since it is virtualizing everything instead of
paravirtualizing like the other options are.
Xen will run linux--no windows.
False. Xen on an AMD-V or VT-x capable CPU will run Windows. In fact
VirtualBox and VirtualPC both are now capable of using those extensions to
speed up their performance.
For my (non-)money I'd go for VirtualBox for the ease-of-use vs.
licensing/performance. I'd love to get Xen working for my router box but I
doubt that'll happen any time soon. For just user-grade virtualization VB is
dead-sexy-simple to run and use. Also, for those who are not so worried about
FOSS but want to remain legal-and-free-as-in-bear their non-FOSS license is
hard to beat. From http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Licensing_FAQ here is item
6 (*** emphasis mine):
"What exactly do you mean by personal use and academic use in the Personal Use
and Evaluation License?
***Personal use is when you install the product on one or more PCs
yourself and you make use of it (or even your friend, sister and grandmother).
It doesn't matter whether you just use it for fun or run your multi-million
euro business with it. Also, if you install it on your work PC at some large
company, this is still personal use.*** However, if you are an administrator
and want to deploy it to the 500 desktops in your company, this would not
qualify as personal use. Well, you could ask each of your 500 employees to
install VirtualBox but don't you think we deserve some money in this case?
We'd even assist you with any issue you might have."
Normally "personal use" is a euphemism for "non-commercial use". The
fact they spell out the difference and explicitly state that you can use it
for personal commercial use, even inside a company, just makes the easy-to-use
version quite sweet.
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