Am 16.01.2013 09:37, schrieb Bolesław Tokarski: > Hello, > > I believe at some point in the past I saw a post mentioning an > alternative desktop virtualization solution posted to this mailing list. > It was not the most common Vmware/Citrix thing. Now I cannot find it. > > What virtualization tools do you use or have evaluated and can provide > feedback about? > > Best regards, > Ballock > Hi Ballock
There are different Open Source virtualisation technologies. There's KVM, Xen and Virtualbox. KVM is state of the art, included in the Linux Kernel and very robust. Xen is the other big OS Virtualisation technology, but it's no longer state of the art. Eventhough Oracle/Citrix which build on Xen claim otherwise- Virtualbox is another technology developed by Sun and aquired by Oracle. For KVM there are many manager tools and frontends. Virt-Manager is the GUI tool that can be used for most of the tasks. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation (RHEV) or oVirt are Enterprise class Virtualisation tools like Vmware/Citrix using KVM. For personal use Virtualbox is great as it has a easy interface and support for graphics acceleration. For Desktop Virtualisation with Thin clients or remote access there are different protocols. More or less performant and more or less open source. RHEV/oVirt uses SPICE http://www.spice-space.org/ which is specifically designed for VDI. It is great in performance and allows passing of local hardware / Sound etc. Sidenote: For accessing the Video Console of RHEV/oVirt, a Firefox extension is needed. Unfortuately that package is not provided by official ubuntu Repos. Even though Canonical is "strategic partner" of the oVirt project, nobody seems to care. A while ago I opened a Bug where I asked and pushed for a package of spice-xpi for Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/943510 Jason Brooks from Red Hat then created a package for Ubuntu and put it in his PPA, which works fine. https://launchpad.net/~jasonbrooks/+archive/ppa If anyone knows somebody who can help fixing that, I would very appreciate that. Best regards, Philipp -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~enterprise-ubuntu Post to : enterprise-ubuntu@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~enterprise-ubuntu More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
