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darkmatter
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Posted: 13 October 2010 at 2:54pm |
I'm sure some of you have been doing virtualisation for ages now, but it's a new discovery for me
Ubuntu minimal install as host + Xserver + openbox + virtualbox = Only major issue I've found so far is sound through virtualbox - it can only emulate shite soundcards as far as I can tell. So what are people's favourite virtualisation setups / linux distros? |
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cravings
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i've had this arch linux install for about 5 years now i think. have used fluxbox as my wm for about 6 years... have used debian and gentoo before, each for about a year.
very happy with arch. works for me. never tried any virtualising. watching wine crash on its arse trying to run hornresp is as into that as i've got.. |
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darkmatter
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hehe i had problems with wine too. you might be pleasantly surprised by virtualbox though - i installed windows 7 (64) really quickly with no problems (bar the limited sound drivers support). perfect for running apps like hornresp, foobar etc. being able to install and test an OS and then take a snapshot of a clean install saves a lot of ballache imo. |
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cravings
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i don't have such a great need for hornresp to install a whole operating system.. virtual or otherwise. it's about 6 years since i had windows on any computer and i don't miss it at all.
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danielmartin
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As some people have noticed, Xen is now available from the Fedora development repository. Xen is a fairly simple operating system, as a management program that can run on other operating systems behavior. Xen is also used to refer to the guest operating system for managing the Xen hypervisor running on top of a set of tools.
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Grumpy
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cravings
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i probably haven't tried it in a year.
it starts up, it gets so far, but at some stage of entering data it just shuts. i always suspected it was something pretty trivial like a font or something that messes it up. don't know why i thought that. |
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cilla.scope
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been running multiple servers under the Xen hypervisor for a while, been pretty smooth. all the guest OS's are Debian stable or testing, apart from a couple of rhel installs. I just like being able to snapshot a system into the SAN and replicate it, mess around with a copy, and blow it away ... makes running "traditional" standalone servers feel like flying without a parachute.
allthe production and test stuff is under Xen now, infact, apart from this workstation and the laptop, I dont think I have any none-virtualised enviroments left. oh wait .. theres a backup box and an ARP transparent router .. but thats all. |
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