On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Max Hetrick <maxhetrick at 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.