[COLUG] Xen vs. VMWare

[Joe Whipple]

Or just download the free (as in beer) VMWare Server edition.... no 
messing with the vmx files needed.

David McGlone wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 August 2007 12:26:25 pm Josh wrote:
>   
>>> Is there anyone on the list who has experience with both of these
>>> virtualization tools that can give a (brief) pros & cons of each?
>>>       
>
> I don't have any experience with Xen, but this discussion got the best of my 
> curiosity and I remembered seeing the free version of VMware player in 
> Ubuntu/Kubuntus repository so I decided to give it a try.
>
> It works flawlessly and it is fast, can't really tell it is a VM.
>
> Only snag I ran into was having to hack up my own .vmx config file and then 
> once I got VMware player running I installed windows XP and then made 
> modifications to the .vmx file until windows was running correctly.
>
> All in all, it works great.
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