[COLUG] Xen vs. VMWare

[Mike Harrold]

On 8/1/07, Joe Whipple <joe at whipple.cc> wrote:
> Or just download the free (as in beer) VMWare Server edition.... no
> messing with the vmx files needed.

With respect, that's not what I asked.  I'm looking for a comparison
between VMWare Workstation and Xen.  I have my reasons for not
asking about VMWare Server or VMWare Player.  I know that you're
probably just trying to be helpful, and that's appreciated, but you're
not being.  It's the one thing that, after 13 years of using Linux, still
irks me -- the inability of many Linux users to answer the question
on the table, and the desire to interject other aspects that are quite
irrelevant.

I'm sorry if this comes off a little harsh; it's not a personal attack but
just an observation.

/Mike

> 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.