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wolfgangmob Joined: Jan 13, 2009 Posts: 6 Other Topics	Posted Jan 14, 2009 at 3:15:32 AM Subject: Virtualization software? I've recently built a system for the first time and while I used more economical parts it's a massive upgrade from my old 1.6GHz laptop with 768MB RAM and 40GB HDD. After I had fun setting it up and customizing Ubuntu a bit more for my tastes I moved my thoughts to trying something new with my new hardware that my old hardware would just not be able to do, run virtual machines. I was wondering what's a good full-featured virtualization application for Linux, preferably something that is in an Ubuntu package, but I could use practice on installing from tarball. I would only need basic features to get me introduced to virtualization since I would like to mess around with some smaller distros at first. My specs: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ 2.6GHz 4GB PC6400/DDR2 800 RAM (3840MB available, also mobo sometimes clocks it up to 850MHz) 500GB 32MB cache HDD SATA CD/DVD burner integrated AMD/ATI Radeon HD 3200 256MB shared RAM (will be upgraded when I can upgrade my monitor, which will be a while currently) Rosewill PCI Wi-fi card (RNX-G300EX)
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Rubberman Joined Jul 30, 2007 Posts: 944 Location:40 miles west of Chicago Other Topics	Posted: Jan 14, 2009 4:28:23 AM Subject: Virtualization software? Sounds like you are having the same fun I had last year when I built my new workstation. I tried Xen, Qemu, VMware, Parallels, and VirtualBox and have settled on VirtualBox from Sun. The price is right (free), source is available, and it just plain works without the need to install the xen extensions to your OS. I presume you installed the 64bit version of Ubuntu? If not, you really should with your system, especially if you want to bump your RAM over 4GB. I am running 8GB in mine and can easily run a couple of VMs (1 Windows and 1 Linux/Solaris/whatever). I give each 1 or 2GB of RAM. Anyway, VBox is very configurable and can share your CD/DVD drives, USB ports, audio hardware, etc. It also recognizes most operating systems and can tune them to work with your system as best as possible. In any case, with your setup you should have no problem running a single VM without overburdening your system's normal operations. I don't even notice Windows running when it is doing processor intensive operations. Aren't multiple cores great?! Enjoy! Sometimes real fast is almost as good as real time. Remember, Google is your friend!
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Binary Snake Joined Jan 11, 2009 Posts: 197 Other Topics	Posted: Jan 16, 2009 10:35:03 PM Subject: Virtualization software? VirtualBox is perfect, it's better than even the other commercial solutions like VMWare, which are system ressources hungry, that not to mention the buggy MS VirtualPC.
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Rubberman Joined Jul 30, 2007 Posts: 944 Location:40 miles west of Chicago Other Topics	Posted: Jan 17, 2009 4:49:49 AM Subject: Virtualization software? I don't know about perfect, but the current versions are very, very solid, easy to use, and don't seem to crash at all. Sometimes real fast is almost as good as real time. Remember, Google is your friend!
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