On 3/8/2010 12:11 AM, bofh wrote:
Is there *ANY* good virtualization software out there? I don't care what OS it needs to host it (preferably not windows :)) - my needs are simple (home use):
I haven't really tried out Xen or qemu, but it seems ESXi should at least be adequate for the job, despite my earlier "enterprisey" comments. Personally, I think I'd put Solaris on a second box and mount it via NFS, probably using a dedicated NIC, and use that as a cheap SAN. OpenBSD works well under ESX, I'd expect it to work well under ESXi too.
Using a processor with hardware-assisted virtualization seems to make a big difference in performance, although there's probably a bug somewhere that will let you jump from a VM guest to the host or another guest. That's probably the same with any (x86) virtualization product, though.
So, try 'em all, let us know how it works out.
