On Sunday 22 May 2011, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote:
On Sunday 22 May 2011, naibed wrote:
Need to have a virtual machine to use as test
platform.
OS is Debian 6.0 on 32bit arch. Let me know any free and stable
software which you have used for such purpose
I use VirtualBox for all my test VMs. Works fine on Debian from
packages, gives me all the features I need.
To expand a bit, the other virtualisation technology I've used is Xen.
That works well for production servers and seems cleaner for that
environment to me for some reason. On the other hand, it's a PITA to
setup. VirtualBox is easy for testing since:
- It doesn't need a a special kernel.
- It doesn't need any changes in the networking (Xen needs bridging).
- It has one kernel module that does everything kernel-level.
- It has GUI management if you like that kind of stuff.
- It has VNC built-in.
So my preference (in general) is VirtualBox for testing and Xen for
production.
Regards,
-- Raj
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