[Gloucs] Hypervisors.

[Matthew Phillips]

vmware/virtual box will be the easiest route. most people now package in
vmware for deployment so it'll potentially help you better in the industry.

It's also much easier to learn.

Virtual box is free but doesn't have as many of the features as vmware.
virtualbox is also a bugger to package virtual machines as it stores the
config and the config separate.

My vote would be

   1. vmware
   2. virtualbox
   3. xen

Cheers

Matt

On 27 July 2011 11:24, Tom Llewelyn <tom at llewelyn.org> wrote:

> Hi Geoff
>
> What hypervisor/host OS are you looking at?
>
> KVM and Xen on Linux hosts can both support 32-bit guests on a 64-bit host.
> I believe VMWare and Virtualbox can do this to but have never tried with
> either.
>
> Hope that helps
>
> Tom
>
> On 27 July 2011 11:13, GEOFF BAGLEY <geoff.bagley at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> > I am tempted to try out one of the available hypervisors to enable me to
> > try out other virtual operating systems.
> >
> > My machine is 64 bit.
> >
> > Would there be a problem with 32 bit guest operating systems?
> > These are the most plentiful !
> >
> > Best regards.
> >
> > Geoff
> >
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