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? -- Bobby