all the possibilities for emulation/virtualization under fedora?

[Brian Chadwick]

Paul Smith wrote:
> On Jan 19, 2008 10:18 AM, Brian Chadwick <brianchad at westnet.com.au> wrote:
>   
>>>   for the sake of a presentation i'm giving, i want to list all of the
>>> options for emulation and virtualization under fedora.  i won't be
>>> explaining them all in horrendous detail (it's only an hour), but i at
>>> least want to hit the high points, so i'm just trying to create a list
>>> -- stuff like QEMU, VirtualBox, VMwarePlayer, JumpBox, KVM, Xen ...
>>> and on and on.
>>>
>>>   what's worth having on that list?  after it's all over, i'll post a
>>> summary (and perhaps a few simple recipes) to the wiki.  thanks.
>>>
>>>       
>> I havent used QEMU, though a lot of things are based around it. I used
>> to use VMWare. Then I found VirtualBox. FOSS and easy to use. I give it
>> full marks. Xen and KVM require (as far as i know) special CPU support,
>> and as I have an old Athloin XP3200+, I cant use them.
>>
>> But yeah ... put VirtualBox on your list for sure.
>>     
>
> Is VirtualBox superior to VMware Server?
>
> Paul
>
>   
i am not qualified to say whether its superior, but in my experience it 
is faster and easier to use ... and its FOSS