Hi All,
I am putting together a high end workstation quote for a customer. He is going to want a Virtual Machine, specifically so he can run iTunes (his wife buys music through iTunes and sync's them to her iPod).
So which VM would you guys use? KVM or Virtual Box?
I am very familiar with KVM and adore it. It's USB support is kind of weird though (iPod).
I have been seriously burned by Virtual Box before and do not care much for the way Oracle does things, so I would have to bite my pride if Virtual Box would be better to run iTunes. (Who knows, maybe Virtual Box has gotten better.)
What do you guys think?
Many thanks, -T
On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 4:37 AM, ToddAndMargo ToddAndMargo@zoho.com wrote:
Hi All,
I am putting together a high end workstation quote for a customer. He is going to want a Virtual Machine, specifically so he can run iTunes (his wife buys music through iTunes and sync's them to her iPod).
For personal laptops or workstations, I tend to run Windows natively for the raw speed of the native apps and to get the latest drivers, and run Scientific Linux in VirtulalBox, which has worked very well. I much prefer the user interface of Virtualbox to the virt-manager suite for KVM or for Xen. It's just been easier, for me, to get tools like the VMware clients or Xencenter for managing *other* virtual environments to work well on Windows, and Outlook for Exchange servers has been critical in too many environments.
SL runs very well and robustly in virtualization with all the virtualization technologies.
On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 9:35 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 4:37 AM, ToddAndMargo ToddAndMargo@zoho.com wrote:
Hi All,
I am putting together a high end workstation quote for a customer. He is going to want a Virtual Machine, specifically so he can run iTunes (his
wife
buys music through iTunes and sync's them to her iPod).
VMware Player may be a good option for you. It's free and has decent "USB passthrough" support for the type of USB interaction you need. I have not tried as much with Virtual Box to enable passthrough, but it has functioned when I did, also.
PJ
On 05/09/2015 07:48 AM, PJ Welsh wrote:
On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 9:35 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@gmail.com mailto:nkadel@gmail.com> wrote: On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 4:37 AM, ToddAndMargo <ToddAndMargo@zoho.com mailto:ToddAndMargo@zoho.com> wrote:
Hi All,
I am putting together a high end workstation quote for a customer. He is going to want a Virtual Machine, specifically so he can run iTunes (his wife buys music through iTunes and sync's them to her iPod).
VMware Player may be a good option for you. It's free and has decent "USB passthrough" support for the type of USB interaction you need. I have not tried as much with Virtual Box to enable passthrough, but it has functioned when I did, also.
Thank you. Looks like I will have to learn VMPlayer.
-T
On 05/09/2015 07:35 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
I tend to run Windows natively
Hi Nico,
The guy's wife is a Junkware magnet. So they were looking to have the base in Linux. SL 7 doesn't support Wine 32, so we were looking at Fedora.
-T
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