[Gloucs] Type 1 hypervisor.

[Matthew Phillips]

Virtualbox-ose stands for OpenSourceEdition!

Matthew Phillips
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On 31 May 2011, at 16:47, GEOFF BAGLEY <geoff.bagley at btinternet.com> wrote:

> Thanks Adam.
> I had looked at virtualbox, but it appears to be proprietary (Oracle).
> I would really prefer FLOSS if I can get it to do what I want.
> Also I don't wish to install Windows on my own system, though my daughter may subsequently do so.  I want to get some experience which I can subsequently pass on.
> Best regards,
> Geoff
>
> --- On Tue, 31/5/11, Adam Scarborough <scarby at anllp.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> From: Adam Scarborough <scarby at anllp.co.uk>
>> Subject: Re: [Gloucs] Type 1 hypervisor.
>> To: "Gloucestershire LUG" <gloucs at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>> Cc: robert_wilkinson at symantec.com
>> Date: Tuesday, 31 May, 2011, 16:19
>> Geoff
>>
>> When you talk about allowing for a number of operating
>> systems to be
>> installed it appears your not after something like xen
>> where the default
>> method for interacting with the machine is to connect to
>> the hypervisor
>> over VNC. Is this the case? i.e. do you wish to access the
>> Guest OS via
>> the attached monitor? In which case for ease of use i would
>> recommend
>> using something like virtualbox-ose to virtualise Linux
>> within windows
>> or windows within Linux.
>>
>> Adam
>>
>> On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 16:09 +0100, GEOFF BAGLEY wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Bob - please see below.
>>>
>>>> Geoff
>>>>
>>>> I have used Xen successfully to host many linux
>>>> installations on a
>>>> physical machines. Google says that Xen can host
>> Windows
>>>> too but
>>>> have never tried that.
>>>>
>>>> Bob
>>>>
>>> Please can you clarify, was the Xen itself running on
>> a Linux OS, and if so, which one ?  I would like
>> Ubuntu  and also Debian to be available.
>>> For my daughter, she also wants Windows XP,
>> which I do not use.
>>>
>>> What free software  hypervisors are there beside
>> Xen, and qemu ?
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Geoff.
>>>
>>> PS I may get to see you at Message Labs one day.
>>>
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