On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 3:24 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > On 2/19/2014 12:39 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> Virtualbox will work, but if you want to stick to stock packages and >> aren't concerned about running your images on other types of hosts, >> try KVM first. > > KVM is great for virtualizing linux systems, but I found it pretty hard > to work with for virtualizing anything else, so much so that I've > reverted to vmware esxi (which is NOT suitable for workstations, this > is server virtualization). > > YMMV, of course. When I got a server with too much RAM for the free version of ESXi, I copied over a vmdk disk image from a windows guest and can't really tell the difference with it running under KVM. The only issue I have is that when running the GUI console in a freenx/NX session the mouse pointer is way out of sync. But normally I connect directly to the guests with vnc or rdesktop once the network is set up anyway, and I don't know if the same problem happens at the physical console of the host (which I almost never use). -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com