On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 3:24 PM, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
On 2/19/2014 12:39 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
Virtualbox will work, but if you want to stick to stock packages and aren't concerned about running your images on other types of hosts, try KVM first.
KVM is great for virtualizing linux systems, but I found it pretty hard to work with for virtualizing anything else, so much so that I've reverted to vmware esxi (which is NOT suitable for workstations, this is server virtualization).
YMMV, of course.
When I got a server with too much RAM for the free version of ESXi, I copied over a vmdk disk image from a windows guest and can't really tell the difference with it running under KVM. The only issue I have is that when running the GUI console in a freenx/NX session the mouse pointer is way out of sync. But normally I connect directly to the guests with vnc or rdesktop once the network is set up anyway, and I don't know if the same problem happens at the physical console of the host (which I almost never use).