[clue-talk] VM shootout

[Charles W Downing]

On 08/17/2010 01:11 PM, David L. Willson wrote:
> So, perhaps the right place to start is.
>
> For each person interested in seeing/hearing/attending this talk:
>
>     What advantages do you want from virt?
>    
When I first installed virtualbox, I had two needs.  The first one may 
be moot now, since it has been two years since I diligently worked on 
it.  The second recently paid off, when I actually updated to the latest 
version of Linux Mint.

1. I need to have a virtual Windows XP operation, without dual-booting, 
to maintain my old genealogical data.  The program in question has never 
worked in Wine, but has continued to run with several upgrades of VB.

2. I should discipline myself to test-run new versions of Linux in a VM 
to protect myself from myself so I don't destroy almost-completely 
backed up data in a couple of databases that only I have copies of.  
Otherwise, I would be trying KDE today, Gnome tomorow and Fedora the 
next and probably wiping out this week's data, even though I did a 
back-up "just last week".  I lucked out with the last two updates of 
Ubuntu and Kubuntu by not wiping out the databases, but royally screwing 
up most of my system while testing the updates without VB.

I hope that helps.
> The answer(s) will help SME's to prepare a relevant talk.
>
> David L. Willson
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> ----- "David Ahern"<dsahern at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>    
>> On 08/17/10 12:39, dennisjperkins at comcast.net wrote:
>>      
>>> It might be worthwhile splitting it into two talks.
>>>
>>> I'm playing with Qemu-kvm, but I want to a comparison of all 4
>>>        
>> because I
>>      
>>> might need to use one of them at work to solve an issue with a
>>> development program that is always incompatible with older versions.
>>>        
>>   A
>>      
>>> new version is issued every year, but customers who already have an
>>> older version don't want to spend $3000 to upgrade.  Reasonable, but
>>>        
>> GE
>>      
>>> doesn't see it that way.  So it appears that I will be forced to
>>>        
>> support
>>      
>>> multiple versions, each one in a separate Windows image.  This will
>>>        
>> be a
>>      
>>> nightmare in ten years.
>>>        
>> Meaning desktop virtualization - ie., running VM's on your local
>> laptop/box?
>>
>> I guess I'm confused on scope of the talk by earlier references to
>> VirtualBox (desktop solution) and proxmox (not desktop).
>>
>> David
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Chuck Downing
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