[olug] VMWare Player vs VirtualBox

[aric at omahax.com]

Xenserver now.  I was running Xen initially, before Xenserver existed.  It
is helpful to be familiar with the Xen CLI.  Citrix has added a lot of
nifty interface things.

I wasn't too happy when they switched Xenserver from Debian to CentOS, but
that is just a personal preference.

> Just for clarification, are you using Xen or Xenserver?
>
> ---- aric at omahax.com wrote:
> +1 for Xenserver
>
> I use both Xenserver and VMware vSphere hypervisor on production servers
> at work.
>
> 1.  When I was evaluating a solution several years ago Xen beat ESXi in
> the benchmark testing that I performed.... It could be different now.
>
> 2.  I don't know how to easily* pre-assign MAC addresses or change MAC
> addresses of virtuals in ESXi/vSphere/VMWare workstation.
>
> 3.  Most of the advanced features that I use that you have to pay VMware
> for are free with Xenserver.  (SAN boot, pooling, hot
> migration(VMotion/live motion)).
>
> I have more 64-bit processors with VT-x than I do NICs that vSphere
> hypervisor supports.  I had a NIC go out and was running all over trying
> to find an Intel GT 1000 as a temporary fix.
>
>
> phpVirtualBox looks cool.
>
>> +1 on ESXi/vSphere.
>>
>> The top 2 reasons I don't use Xen: a desire for a consistent
>> virtualization platform and the system requirements - a 64-bit processor
>> with VT-x.
>>
>> A lot of the spare hardware I have won't run unmodified guests in Xen -
>> 32-bit only or no VT-x. ESXi/vSphere is the only hypervisor platform
>> that will run on all of it; ESXi VMs are compatible with vSphere, and
>> you can create VMs in vSphere that will run in ESXi.
>>
>> On 11/23/2010 1:44 PM, Jason N wrote:
>>> If you have a spare box lieing around, why not try Vmware's Free
>>> vSphere Hypervisor (formerly ESXi) or Xen or Xenserver (Citrix)?
>>
>> --
>>
>> Phil Brutsche
>> phil at brutsche.us
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