On 27/08/10 07:43, Cornelius Mostert wrote: > Hi all. > > Just to let you know I am FED-UP with VMWare - Server!! > I have been wrestling with it on Ubuntu and other distros for TOOOOO long > now!! > The latest is just the final straw!! > I have redone my PC to have 10.4 on and loaded VMServer on (with all the > patches!! I found on the internte to get it installed), but then the Console > could not be used to open VMs and had to use RDC / VNC etc. > I have followed numerous "fixes" but none seem to work: > Downgrade Firefox from 3.6.xx to 3.5.xx did not work > Extracting and installing the remote console separately did not work > ETC. > And then with every new version of FF or Linux kernals / headers you have to > hope and pray all will reconfigure!!! > > Now I am switching to VirtualBox! Hopefully this will provide a solution, I > am a GUI person so KVM is still a bit too much for me if you have to every > time make use of a CLI, I guess there are GUIs for it but VirtualBox seems > to be easy enough to not take too much time of my daily routine. > > The big box still run ESXi though...
I've been using Virtualbox since Hardy came out, as it is pretty slick and mostly pain free, but I took another look at qemu-kvm after the recent announcement from Oracle, and armed with a little foreknowledge, I feel happy I could switch to kvm without losing very much, if anything. There is a gui for creating and managing VMs (virt-manager), and I tend to want to know how to do everything I do in Virtualbox from the command line anyway so it can be automated if necessary. I thought it was going to be a big job to get it working, but all I had to do in Lucid was install a few packages, add a few lines to the network config and remove Virtualbox. -- JimP -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
