[CentOS] Virtualization in CentOS 6

Sat Apr 14 07:33:22 UTC 2012
Dean Jones <dean.jones at oregonstate.edu>

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.