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What is the best virtualization software for Linux?
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Avatar Image   Started by holotone holotone has 44,566 Grupie Points 1 year ago         Comments 2 Comments

Which software do you run your virtualized OS's under? Which has the best performance?
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Innotek VirtualBox

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As far as I can tell, it's free, fairly stable, and runs pretty quickly. My only gripe is I can't give it more than a small percen... [show more]

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VMware

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My suggestion for virtualized machines is VMware and the VMware Player. I have yet to try Xen so my suggestion depends on your host OS.

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Xen

Limited to only a few supported OSes though. Performance is far better than VMWare, especially with modern hardware that supports... [show more]

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QEMU

QEMU is a fast processor emulator, written by Fabrice Bellard, which allows full virtualization of a PC system within another one.... [show more]

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OpenVZ

This is my suggestion if you are interested in virtualized Linux operating systems.

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worzie 1 year ago

Bottom line is... what OS's do you plan to virtualize and on top of what host OS are you targeting? Not one is the winner in all categories. They all are great for what they do.

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holotone 1 year ago

Host: Ubuntu Studio (Gutsy)
Guest: XP (primarily for Photoshop CS3 and my wife's Win-only school software)

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This topic was started by holotone holotone has 44,566 Grupie Points on November 15th, 2007. 11 grupies have voted on one or more of the 5 answers.

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