On 04/23/2011 06:09 PM, William Kern wrote:
On 4/22/11 10:18 PM, MargoAndTodd wrote:
I have a bunch of virtual machines running under Virtual Box 3.2.12. I want to run them under KVM and drop Virtual Box from these systems.
Hi. I am curious why you are making the switch out of VirtualBox. We are beginning to test it with the new VirtBox 4.0.x series now that it has been open sourced.
We currently run Xen, VMWare (both Server and ESX) and a test KVM box and are always looking for others experiences.
Sincerely,
William "Bill" Kern
Offlist?
Hi Bill,
Sure. Love to carry on about it. Virtual Box was always open sourced, to an extent.
VBox 4.x is slower than 3.2.12. I can not take any more performance hits. I am still on 3.2.12 for the same reason you are using old-out-of-date Enterprise Linux.
I also almost got fired over Virtual Box and still may. Fortunately, as a private contractor, I do not have all my eggs in one basket.
A collection of some of my "recent" bug reports.
http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/7628 http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/7643 http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/7607 http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/7948 http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/7957 http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/7772
And, the one I almost got and still may get fired over: http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/8478
8478 corrupted the hell out of a Visual Fox Pro and and M$SQL 2008 database.
And you *can not* purchase a support contract with Oracle for Virtual Box. I wasted about 10 hours trying. I have completely lost confidence in Oracle.
Red Hat, on the other hand, I love. I snooped on the KVM developers list and Holy Cow! are they ever developing like crazy. I no longer want to trust a Virtual Machine where the developers have to be pushed kicking and screaming into fixing anything.
HTH, -T
Anyone have a chance to look over my qemu-ing run string?