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[Guy Thouret]

Personally I prefer Xen and use it on my servers, unfortunately Xen is
no longer supported under Ubuntu and requires significant effort to get
it to work.

For creating virtual machines from the Ubuntu desktop I have been using
KVM and Ubuntu's Virtual Machine Manager software.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM

In intrepid all this requires is that you install ubuntu-virt-server and
ubuntu-virt-mgmt packages.  These pull in everything you need.

Here is a good article for installing and using KVM and Virtual Machine
Manager on Hardy:
http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/04/14/virtualization-with-virt-manager-and-kvm-in-ubuntu-804/

Guy.

On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 10:52 -0500, Verde Denim wrote:

> I setup my personal Ubuntu box with 8.04 and would like to test some
> tools in virtual environments.
> Classically, vmware has been the choice for this, but I've been
> reading about VirtualPC and another app (I think it's called xen).
> I wanted to see if others on the list had a preference of one over
> another. If the consensus isn't vmware, it should probably be able to
> read or convert vmware environments, since a few at work that I'd like
> to test with are in vmware form.
> 
> Thanks for any input you might have.
> 
> Jack
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