Re: [gentoo-amd64] VMWare Workstation install

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Tamas Karpati <tkarpati@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for your toughts. Following your suggestion I'm going
> to evaluate VB while experimenting a bit more with WS.
> I think I'll let them compete.

If you're going to consider something new I'd certainly look at KVM as
well (libvirt/virt-manager/etc).

I can't pretend to have done a full-feature comparison between the
various options, but the obvious advantage of KVM is that it is in the
vanilla kernel and fully open-source.  Wrappers like virt-manager give
you a workstation-like presentation but all the guts are fully
command-line controllable and use standard kernel features.  I don't
know if it supports snapshotting of running systems, however (ie
including RAM/hardware/etc state).

I don't know what your exact needs are, but obviously being 100% FOSS
gives you a lot of options you won't have with any of the proprietary
stuff.  If for some reason a kernel update breaks it you can complain
on lkml and watch it get fixed fast or at the very least get some
entertainment as Linus flames somebody to a crisp.

--
Rich