[Cialug] Virtualbox Newbie

[Matt Stanton]

He doesn't mean "VMWare in general", but "VMWare Workstation".  Workstation is a desktop application that allows you to run virtual machines, but it has some severe limits on automatically starting VMs when the computer boots and other things that would affect a production environment.  It is great for building test VMs or for having the ability to see first hand how a VM operates before sending it to run on an ESXi host.

If you want the VM to come up with the host and you want tools to manage availability and redundancy, then you have to start looking into vCenter by itself or Xen and KVM plus some management tools.

-- Matt (N0BOX)

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-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Dunn <dunn.stephen.mis at gmail.com>
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
Sent: Fri, 17 May 2013 12:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Virtualbox Newbie

Why would you not use VMware for production?


On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 12:27 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 17 May 2013, Nathan C. Smith wrote:
>
> > Is VirtualBox suitable for production workloads or is it more like a
> > tool for testing and prototyping and running a second OS when necessary?
> >
> IME, if you want good performance from a Windoze VM (XP or Win7 tested),
> use VB - performance is not the best under Xen or KVM.
>
> It also has some tools that are not straightforward with other systems -
> e.g. shared USB and host filesystems.
>
> The only issues we have had with VB are:
>
> 1) It is a user oriented application, so any VMs are linked to the base
> user, whereas something like Xen is system oriented.
>
> 2) When you want to upgrade anything, watch out! VB is pretty 'fragile'
> when updating, especially if you use some of the other available tools
> like vboxtool (which gives you command line machine control).
>
>         Lee
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