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[Rolan Yang]

I've been using Centos Xen VM's on a dedicated development machine and 
it's been working well without any problems. When I'm done with the 
client's job, just shut down the instance and store away the disk image 
on a backup. Didn't do any good when we lost power for half a day after 
the hurricane though.

On 9/2/2011 2:51 PM, David Krings wrote:
> On 9/2/2011 1:23 PM, Yitzchak Schaffer wrote:
>> I've been using VMware Server (free as in beer) to run Ubuntu VMs on my
>> laptops for 1+ years. Works great for me.
>>
>> I have one VM for dev work, and another for staging, which is set up 
>> like
>> production. Easy to create a fresh one to test restoration of backups.
>
> I used to use VMWare Server as well, but found the performance to be 
> dismal.
>
>> My previous laptop with 3GB of RAM could barely run dev (1GB) and 
>> staging
>> (512MB) together, plus some essential apps like Thunderbird, browser, 
>> IDE.
>> Which is pretty good, I think. I have a new Sandy Bridge laptop 
>> (Latitude,
>> i5-2520M) with 4GB, and all is good now.
>>
>> The admin interface is a little slow, but the VM itself is quite fast 
>> IMO.
>
> I agree, the admin UI is a total dog, but the VMs are not too shabby, 
> but compared to VMWare Player it is rather slow.
>
> VMWare Player used to be just that, a tool to play VMs. But while 
> VMWare Server is no longer maintained a lot of changes were made to 
> VMWare Player, including the option to create new VMs.
>
> Also, if there is a box available that can be dedicated to VMs then 
> ESX and Xen as well as Linux KVM are options.
>
> As far as VirtualBox is concerned, I found it to be extremely crash 
> happy.
>
>
>
> David
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