Mad Penguin: The Future of Virtualization On Linux | Linux Today

Mad Penguin: The Future of Virtualization On Linux

Written By
MH
Matt Hartley
Sep 7, 2006

[ Thanks to Toby L.
for this link. ]

“When I first started writing about this, my goal was to do a
review on Win4Lin and offer my findings to you. As luck would have
it, Win4Lin and the latest version of the Ubuntu kernel had other
ideas in mind. To say that it left a bad taste in my mouth would be
an understatement, I think.

Now, this leaves us with a seriously valid question–just how
worthwhile is the virtualization offered by VMware and Win4Lin?
Granted, for the developer, VMWare can prove to be invaluable if
you need to bounce back-and-forth quickly. However, let us not
forget that we are using Linux because that is the choice we
made–working on an alternative OS…”

Complete
Story

MH

Matt Hartley

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