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Simon Waters wrote: > Tom Potts wrote: > >> http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/790/1051790/windows-key-hacking-os >> > > I think we might more correctly title this "don't use immature > virtualization technologies". > > I'm interested if anyone has a no nonsense virtualization solution that > they trust. > > I have UML - which sucks. > > I've got a VZ host, and discovered it wouldn't run one of the apps I > wanted efficiently (to do with memory mapped files). > > QEMU is presumably complete, but I've had issues making it work with the > host systems screen/keyboard/mouse combination. Clearly it isn't working > with these things at the right level if it needs to worry about such > details. > > The best I've seen was Virtual PC images Microsoft shipped as Browser > testing environments, where you can fire up IE8 on Vista inside Windows > XP, and see if your web app works as expected. But I never tried > anything complicated (beyond what runs in a browser), so no idea how > performance compares. > > I haven't tried Xen, or a load of others in serious test mode. > > Simon > > > > I've done Xen a couple of times.. it's the only VM platform I had working properly (except VMware) -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html