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.
Wanted to know if anyone had any feedback on the above? Which one would you choose over the other and why?
thanks abhi
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On 10/26/07, Abhishek Daga <> 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.
Wanted to know if anyone had any feedback on the above? Which one would you choose over the other and why?
Which stable VMs are available for running Linux as guest OS on Windows XP host?
I need stable network support plus support for all standard peripherals including USB within VM.
thanks abhi
TIA for your comments and inputs. With regards,
On 10/26/07, Dinesh Shah dineshah@gmail.com wrote:
Which stable VMs are available for running Linux as guest OS on Windows XP host?
I need stable network support plus support for all standard peripherals including USB within VM.
Virtual box. It is GPL (now ) too !
regards, C
Dear Chetan,
On 10/26/07, Chetan S <> wrote:
I need stable network support plus support for all standard peripherals including USB within VM.
Virtual box. It is GPL (now ) too !
Thanks. I will look it up and try it out.
regards, C
With regards,
Dear Terrence,
On 10/28/07, jtd <> wrote:
On Friday 26 October 2007 13:04, Dinesh Shah wrote:
Which stable VMs are available for running Linux as guest OS on Windows XP host?
You mean XP as guest on lnux host. Running XP as host is a bad idea.
Some times you have to use and support bad ideas. ;)
-- Rgds JTD
With regards,
On 10/29/07, Dinesh Shah dineshah@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Terrence,
On 10/28/07, jtd <> wrote:
On Friday 26 October 2007 13:04, Dinesh Shah wrote:
Which stable VMs are available for running Linux as guest OS on Windows XP host?
You mean XP as guest on lnux host. Running XP as host is a bad idea.
Some times you have to use and support bad ideas. ;)
-- Rgds JTD
With regards,
--Dinesh Shah :-)
Finally decided to go with virtualbox. the version available through synaptic (6.06) has some issues though. dependency issues. I tried fixing those, but it kept saying "kernel complete failed" and virtual office will not start.
So followed another instruction set where i downloaded the dapper version from the virtualbox repository.. before dkpging this, i had to install the kernel source and then the virtualbox package and it all worked fine.
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
On 10/26/07, Chetan S cshring@gmail.com wrote:
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
i tried the command to see if i have VT enabled bios and unfortunately i dont. was hoping to try it out. Did you also have disabled by default and were able to enable it? how did it work for you? my board is the m2n-mx se
thanks abhi
On 10/26/07, Abhishek Daga daga.abhishek@gmail.com wrote:
i tried the command to see if i have VT enabled bios and unfortunately i dont. was hoping to try it out. Did you also have disabled by default and were able to enable it? how did it work for you? my board is the m2n-mx se
Well the VT/Pacifica support should be available in the processor _and_ enabled via the bios. Am not sure which mobo's allow that. The processor+mobo ought to be fairly new as this is a fairly new extension from AMD / Intel.
For me I had the luxury of buying a new m/c with VT enabled processor.
regards, C
On Saturday 27 October 2007 17:29, Chetan S wrote:
On 10/26/07, Abhishek Daga daga.abhishek@gmail.com wrote:
i tried the command to see if i have VT enabled bios and unfortunately i dont. was hoping to try it out. Did you also have disabled by default and were able to enable it? how did it work for you? my board is the m2n-mx se
Afaik it's not available on this board. Check out the linuxbios archives. If this one is supported virtulization will be possible. However running xp on linuxbios may not be possible.
On 10/28/07, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
On Saturday 27 October 2007 17:29, Chetan S wrote:
On 10/26/07, Abhishek Daga daga.abhishek@gmail.com wrote:
i tried the command to see if i have VT enabled bios and unfortunately i dont. was hoping to try it out. Did you also have disabled by default and were able to enable it? how did it work for you? my board is the m2n-mx se
Afaik it's not available on this board. Check out the linuxbios archives. If this one is supported virtulization will be possible. However running xp on linuxbios may not be possible.
-- Rgds JTD
yes i was getting ahead of myself. i will first install virtualbox and probably QEMU under existing ubuntu 6.06 (32 bit and 512 MB RAM) and 7.10(64 bit and 1 GB) and see if that works fine. if yes, then no need to even upgrade RAM or go for a new MB.
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