[Cialug] Meeting next week.

[Don Ellis]

If VirtualBox is mentioned, please be sure and cover vboxtool -- a
very helpful tool for managing VB in an unattended context. It allows
automatic shutdown (save) and restart of selected VBox VMs when the
host is shutdown and restarted. Also allows manual control, as a
wrapper for the VBoxManage CLI component of VB.

Makes it easier to run VBox on headless and remote machines (was
pretty easy before, but the wrapper simplifies the command
considerably, and provides framework for automating them).

--Don Ellis

PS -- sorry I can't be there to add this to the presentation myself.
The commute is a bit long. I can provide references if you need them.

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Josh More <MoreJ at alliancetechnologies.net>
> wrote:
>>
>> The defacto topic next week is virtualizatiion.
>>
>> Do folks care about this?  (Seems to mostly be VirtualBox and VMware these
>> days, are Xen and KVM dead?)
>>
>
> I can speak with confidence that KVM is not dead. It is definitely eating
> into Xen's territory. VirtualBox is primarily for desktop/workstation
> virtualization while KVM (thanks to libvirt and such) works great on
> headless or remote machines.
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