[COLUG] Xen vs. VMWare

[Joe Whipple]

Mike:

Quite frankly, I'm not bothered by your reply, but I will say be careful
how you shoot someone down. I was not replying to _you_ and the message
I wrote was not even directed at _your_ problem.

I was referring to David's issue of mucking with vmx files because he
preferred VMWare PLAYER, when in fact he could do what he needed with
another of VMWare's product that is also free.



Mike Harrold wrote:
> 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.
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