[ale] Linux DESKTOP User's Group

[Geoffrey Myers]

JD wrote:
>> Just an FYI, I'm currently doing this with Centos on virtualbox.  I'd 
>> like to know if you have any issues and/or what vm you plan to use.
>>
>> I'm considering moving to vmware.
> 
> I've been running my "daily desktop" inside a Vbox VM for about 4 years now.
> Windows is the hostOS (for other reasons).
> I love that my VMs are hardware agnostic.  No worries about network drivers.
> I've only used 13GB of storage for it all this time.
> Migrated between 3 different physical machines during that time ... WinXP,
> Vista, Win7 as hosts.  When it is time to change,
> * load VirtualBox,
> * Truecrypt a partition to hold the VMs,
> * Copy/restore my backups and
> * start up my trusty desktop VM
> 
> 100% productive with everything exactly as it was before.
> 
> Stability the last year has been rock solid. The host and the VMs do not crash.
> Before then, I'd need to reboot Win7 weekly to prevent a lock up.
> 
> When a new distro/OS is available, testing with personal settings inside a new
> VM is without risk and easy. It is just 13G of storage after all.
> 
> On Linux hosts, we're migrating to KVM/Qemu, but those are mainly servers, not
> desktops with intensive graphics.
> 
> I've been dissatisfied with a few VMware corporate decisions the last 12 months,
> so ...

I'm not so comfortable with the 'owner' of virtualbox either.

> 
> BTW, there are 6 different "vmware" virtualization tools, so clearly saying
> which would be very helpful.

fusion

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Until later, Geoffrey

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