Hello,
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
Thanks.
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.
Regards,
-- Raj
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 10:56 PM, naibed naibed@rediffmail.com 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
There is the Linux Kernel Virtual Machine (LKVM) if your hardware (motherboard and cpu) supports it. You will need the user space tools like kvm and qemu-img etc. (apt-cache search).
On 05/22/2011 11:29 PM, 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.
Me too.
Greetings,
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
On 05/22/2011 11:29 PM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote:
On Sunday 22 May 2011, naibed wrote:
Need to have a virtual machine to use as test platform.
I had used Centos x86_64 successfully for hosting 32 as well as 64 bit guests.
I guess Centos Centos 6 is due out soon.
Centos 5.5 works solid too.
HTH
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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