Re: [ILUG-BOM] QEMU/VMWARE on ubuntu 7.10: reviews/experiences solicited.

On 10/26/07, Abhishek Daga daga.abhishek@gmail.com wrote:

I am looking to use VMware or QEMU on ubuntu 7.10 desktop.

The hardware will be AMD Athlon XP with 1 GB RAM.

The choice is between VMWARE and QEMU.

Qemu wins hands down if you want better performance with kqemu ( kernel acceleration ) and don't mind messing around with commands. You have "virtual manager" gui from Fedora buddies, for managing things, but its definitely not what my idea of smooth is.

VMWare - definitely point and click, but horrible performance.

Instead you could try virtualbox for point and click operation. They even promise acceleration.

If you had vt enabled bios then you could go for kvm and be happy for a long long time.

regards, C