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Virtualization under Linux

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Tue, 01/05/2010 - 11:52am
mcutting
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Thoughts about using virtualization products on Linux.

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Tue, 01/05/2010 - 11:55am
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mcutting
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Running Widows under KVM

Hi All

Has anyone had any success at getting windows to run on KVM? I did get XP to install and run, but the performance was so slow it was unusable.

Any tips?

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Tue, 01/05/2010 - 12:16pm
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wbirthisel
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A long time ago

In a galaxy...

The Windows was W95 and I think the VM was an early VMWare. A bunch of us with the LUG in southern Wisconsin decided to try it - with some success - but we were willing to accept almost any non-crash as acceptable performance.

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Fri, 02/19/2010 - 10:27am
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wbirthisel
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VirtualBox

One of the "advantages" of unemployment is extra experiment time. So I installed VirtualBox on the Ubuntu system at home (8.04, but most of the releases after 6 are supported as are most of the standard distributions). It looks like a lot of the earlier limitations have been fixed (I have good USB support, for example, although I needed the non-GPL add on from Sun) and the performance has been good for the few things I've tried - so far mostly an install of NT4 SP6 since the CDs were handy and I needed to look at a Win32 perl issue that had been developed there originally.

I don't have a suitable laptop, and I'm still too early on the learning curve to demo anything in March. But later is a possibility.

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Wed, 03/17/2010 - 9:53am
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davewmerrill
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VirtualBox

I've just been introduced to VirutalBox. I just completed a minimal Debian 5.0 install in VirtualBox (hosted on a Windows XP laptop).

One quick question came to mind: Can I move the file (that represents the virtual machine) to a copy of VirtualBox say running on an Ubuntu installation?

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Wed, 03/17/2010 - 10:13am
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jdowns
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Moving virtual machines

There are two files associated with a Virtualbox virtual machine (more if you have iso's and additional hard disk images, but I'm simplifying a bit). One is the virtual machine itself and the other is the hard drive image itself. It's pretty simple to replicate the virtual machine itself by just making a new vm on Ubuntu.

If you want to make a clone of your Debian 5 installation, you would copy the debian.vdi file (or whatever you named your hard disk) to the Ubuntu installation. Then you could use that file as the hard disk for the new virtual machine you made.

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