[GRLUG] one OS to rule them all

[Steve Romanow]

Sorry for top post.  Replying from phone.

Does virt-manager require dom0 setup and reboot?  I have a remote server I want to use for virtualization, but I am deathly afraid im gonna lock myself out of this machine.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Schmidt <timschmidt at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 7:37 AM
To: awilliam at whitemice.org; grlug at grlug.org
Subject: Re: [GRLUG] one OS to rule them all

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 6:42 AM, Adam Tauno Williams
<awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> No clue, VMware Workstation is worth the $$$ in the amount of time is
> saves.

It's not particularly any nicer than KVM with virt-manager (
http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/ ) these days...  Except
virt-manager is already packaged and in the repos of several major
distributions, and can seamlessly manage multiple VM servers running
qemu, KVM, or Xen.

VMWare workstation still has some features not present by default in
the various FOSS virtualization software (like 3D accelleration inside
VMs), but then so do the FOSS virtualization packages have some
features VMware does not - like a propensity for working with standard
*nix tools.  All the FOSS packages, for instance, can use raw disk
images compatible with standard disk tools like dd and fdisk.