On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 1:59 AM, Mark V
Hi, Last year, when I was using WindowsXP, I used VMWare Workstation to run another installation of XP as a guest - primarily to simplify changing machines.
I'd like to establish the same setup using openSUSE.
I'm currently using openSUSE 10.2. What I'd like to do: - Install a openSUSE 11.0 guest on my current machine. - Move my /home contents to this guest, configure the guest - When the guest is 'the way I need it', backup the guest and do a fresh install of openSUSE 11.0 (possibly 11.1 by then) - Copy the guest over, and resume work...
What are the linux VMWare equivalents? Is there a generally acknowledged best-of-breed?
Any comments on the advisability of this approach? Specifically: - What cpu, disk and network performance price is to be paid, e.g 10% cpu cost, etc.?
I would appreciate any insights or comments.
Regards Mark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
You have several options to run a VM in Linux. The more popular choices are VMware server, Virtual Box (VB), XEN, and QEMU. All of them are free. I've used VMware, XEN, and Virtual Box with Virtual Box being my current hypervisor of choice. As far as specs and performance go I have a Dell D620 with 1.5 GB of RAM and 1.8 GHx dual core. I typically have one or two VMs running with Windows and Linux installed on 8-10 GB virtual disks, and 256-512 MB of RAM allocated to each VM. The only performance ding that I notice is during start up of the VMs as they are all on the same physical disk as the host. I have not noticed any network performance issues at all, even using a wireless connection. CPU usage depends on what you are doing, but I have rarely seen it go over 30% for any sustained period of time with the average being closer to 15%. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org