On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 9:03 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > On 04/13/12 8:25 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> I might be needing to utilize one of the provided virtualization packages either in a headless >> console only setup of CentOS or on my desktop. I havent used anything but ESXi in ages >> except virtualbox which I did not like at all. Most of the guests which I will need to run will be >> wnidows based and last I looked at this a few years ago, windows guests ran pathetic. What >> are some more current opinions on how windows guests run on the available packages compared >> to ESXi? > > I would only use KVM for a predominately Linux guest workload. > Windows doesn't run badly under KVM. Depends on your storage speeds it seems.