On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Max Hetrick maxhetrick@verizon.net wrote:
a arias wrote:
Over the last year I have worked with Xen, KVM, VMware ESX and Sun VirtualBox. VirtualBox is my recommendation, hands down.
I think this is too vague of a opinion on virtualization use. I think it depends on what you're doing with it.
VirtualBox is a nice piece of software for desktop/power user use, however, ESXi and ESX are geared more towards enterprise and business critical use.
So, it kind of depends on what you're going to be doing with it.
I took another peek at the current VirtualBox to see how the project is going. It looks like they've improved the network configuration quite a bit so not-so-standard configurations are easier. When I'd last used VirtualBox it took a couple days to get bridged networking to a bond0 device working. However, it looks like the CPU usage issue still exists. The new one does have an internal networking which is something I've wanted since using a similar technology with AIX. On AIX it makes guest to guest transfers operate at incredible throughput.