I've been a big user of vmware for some time and it is very impressive - I use the fusion version on my MAC and consider it completely peerless.
For my main work box its not an option though - I've used the P2V Vmware tool (now called Vmware Vcenter) to get windows 7 (physical) migrated into my Fedora 14 setup - vmware player was Ok except it's network support was missing for my NIC so I gave Virtual Box a go and it does everything very well - only thing that appears to be missing is linux to Windows file association So my advice is currently to go with Virtual Box - not sure what limitation you've seen on USB devices but it looks good to me (certainly with memory sticks anyway) Martin On 16 December 2010 20:53, Stewart Robertson <stewart.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > I remember a discussion about this a while back can't remember the > outcome... > > I've now got a more powerful machine that should be capable of > virtualisation so I can try out different distros (i.e. Arch/Gentoo) without > actually installing them and partitioning my drive. > > What do you recommend I use? > > VMWare - proprietary and closed source so I won't be going there. > > VirtualBox - open source version doesn't have USB support. > > KVM - supposedly ideal for running on Ubuntu but the support pages say: > > "If you are looking for software to serve graphically-based virtual > machines, VirtualBox <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox>, > Parallels Workstation (or Parallels Desktop for Mac), or VMware > Player/Server are more suitable alternatives." > > Any thoughts? > > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro >
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