From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RTEWO-0004IC-O8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:14:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B19B21C0D6; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:13:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vw0-f53.google.com (mail-vw0-f53.google.com [209.85.212.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BC7421C0BF for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:12:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vbbff1 with SMTP id ff1so2257121vbb.40 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 07:12:57 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=dggSPZyI1xJwownhLH+c0TpeZpo2WbgqBRPImZ8kFBU=; b=kcNKUdBXY6oPm+Rgg/cfFmwHxpfkz4vYqOcQ4bugYua+stfkP6YZmdcqPqckbhV/lA yAuDHkZBPo/JCs4BrjfB3EG3690zsNFN/3fLp1lvRKB/6FIDln1iTyBZv9qVz/Ie+SDx 3R+fBYKRjqC8qtDu2nvbZiOsyVllo+9dsZv6E= Received: by 10.52.156.80 with SMTP id wc16mr26075303vdb.20.1322061177120; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 07:12:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from rohan.example.com ([196.215.144.97]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id em10sm24283830vdc.6.2011.11.23.07.12.54 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 23 Nov 2011 07:12:56 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:12:51 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please. Message-ID: <20111123171251.4bb8864a@rohan.example.com> In-Reply-To: <9eb323ce9f3bf7ae75729fe7ab4706ae.squirrel@www.antarean.org> References: <20111122192021.GA3364@acm.acm> <1322002029.8108.35.camel@moriah> <9eb323ce9f3bf7ae75729fe7ab4706ae.squirrel@www.antarean.org> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8 (GTK+ 2.24.4; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b652e4f8-52c7-459a-aa4f-8c5bda7618a9 X-Archives-Hash: 41fab7d68072649921c6bea214c8ac1b On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:01:34 +0100 "J. Roeleveld" wrote: > On Tue, November 22, 2011 11:47 pm, William Kenworthy wrote: > > > > > YMMV ... VB is stable and rarely if ever breaks, app and modules > > "just work" - performance is as good as vmware > > I actually found VB to have better performance. > > When using virtual machines, I tend to run multiple simultaneously. > VirtualBox can handle more on similar hardware the VMWare. > The settings for the VMs (harddisk size, memory size) are identical. > For video-settings, as they generally tend to run server > applications, I really don't care for those and the basic is > generally sufficient. I notice this entire thread has carefully steered around ESXi Now there's an interesting product, with a truly fascinating licensing and pricing model. -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com