On Monday, August 09, 2010 03:50:02 pm Whit Blauvelt wrote:
On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 03:17:10PM -0400, Bobby wrote:
I recommend using VirtualBOX from Sun. Close to wire speed, no need to alter the kernel. Simple and flexible to use.
No need to alter the kernel for KVM either. VirtualBox formerly from Sun has been gathering bugs since Oracle took over. Personally I wouldn't recommend it for serious use. It's a nice shiney toy though. But if you use, for instance, its snapshotting feature, and then something goes wrong, veteran users in the support forums will tell you you were a fool to ever trust the feature. Guess you're supposed to have an instinct about it. Simple is no good when major simple features aren't dependable.
Whit
Interesting, I've been using it to test install s/w and found it completely stable. Not once have I seen it crash using snapshot.
Indeed I've built on Linux and moved the client O/S's to both Windows and MAC and vice versa. The volume is not all that high, maybe 20 restores of a single snapshot, over and over.
I wonder what the conditions were that it failed under?