Virtualisation.

[David Thorne]

I haven't experienced major disk performence issues, I think it's down to how you partition and whether you use disk intesive processes such as software RAID, etc.

Yes I mean with regards GUI Tools for setting up the VM's etc or if you are wanting a desktop (Say to test a new release of a distro prior to roll out) then I  tend to use Sun's virtualbox.

HTH
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dom Latter" <dom at latter.org>
To: clug at cambridge-lug.org
Sent: Thursday, 12 February, 2009 12:01:26 PM GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal
Subject: Re: Virtualisation.

On Thursday 12 February 2009 12:30:30 David Thorne wrote:

[Xen]

> I have never had a problem with it, in fact I love it.  The only reason I

I've been warned about disk performance - had any issues there?

> don't use it for all my VMs is the GUI's that exist for it on the desktop -
> in my opinion - suck.  If you don't require a GUI (And as this is a secure

Do you mean GUI tools?

> I am probably doing a Refresh talk on VM's in April. If you would like I
> would be more than happy to show you a sneak preview of my presentation if
> you would like, as I suspect April will be quite a long time to wait for an

I think I need to decide today, really!

> active project.  I am pretty sure you are on the Refresh Cambridge list, if
> not it's available to subscribe at http://www.refreshcambridge.org/

Certainly am.  And if you see my name anywhere it's overwhelmingly likely 
to be me.
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