Virtualization in Linux: A Review of Four Software Choices

“This week Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, announced
a partnership with Parallels, maker of the Virtualization products
Parallels Workstation and Parallels Desktop for Mac. Consequently,
the Parallels Workstation virtualization software is now available
to download and install in Ubuntu Linux, completely supported by
Canonical, and done entirely through the Add/Remove programs
interface. This makes four different virtualization programs–three
of which are installable via the package repositories–that run on
Ubuntu Linux…

“This article compares four virtualization products available
for Ubuntu Linux: the free, open source x86 emulator Qemu; the
closed-but-free versions of VirtualBox and VMware-Server, and the
commercial Parallels Workstation…”

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