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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 = Smile

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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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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Originally posted by cravings cravings wrote:

watching wine crash on its arse trying to run hornresp is as into that as i've got..


heheLOL 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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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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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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Originally posted by cravings cravings wrote:

. watching wine crash on its arse trying to run hornresp is as into that as i've got..
Had no problems with hornresp on wine with Linux Mint. Perhaps I'm just lucky
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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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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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