{"id":481,"date":"2012-11-10T12:35:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T20:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/systemsolver.com\/StatlerBlog\/?p=481"},"modified":"2012-11-10T12:35:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T20:35:01","slug":"virtual-machines-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/2012\/11\/10\/virtual-machines-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual machines &#8212; notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a bunch of notes after reading:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ask.slashdot.org\/story\/12\/11\/09\/2226249\/ask-slashdot-which-virtual-machine-software-for-a-beginner\">http:\/\/ask.slashdot.org\/story\/12\/11\/09\/2226249\/ask-slashdot-which-virtual-machine-software-for-a-beginner<\/a><\/p>\n<p>VirtualBox == have to export VM then import it at the new destinationto keep it happy. A failed shrink puts the VM into an inconsistent state.<\/p>\n<p>VMWare player (WMWare free?) == Missing a virtual disk management tool. Check for supported hardware? Better with 3D video. Uses more memory than VirtualBox<\/p>\n<p>VMWare free == move copy the folder containing the VM and most of the time it&#8217;ll run just fine in it&#8217;s new location, no USB?<\/p>\n<p>VMWare workstation == best but expensive. Easily move from one OS to another with just drag and drop (I assume this means XP to Win7\/Win8 or Linux)<\/p>\n<p>OpenVZ == not windows<\/p>\n<p>KVM == bare metal, but setup isn&#8217;t easy and requires a Linux host. Works well for vituralization of servers (headless).<\/p>\n<p>Hyper-V == Good for Windows VMs. Not useful for Linux VMs.<\/p>\n<p>Xen == not for beginners, &#8220;Art of Zen&#8221; useful book<\/p>\n<p>ESX ==<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a bunch of notes after reading: http:\/\/ask.slashdot.org\/story\/12\/11\/09\/2226249\/ask-slashdot-which-virtual-machine-software-for-a-beginner VirtualBox == have to export VM then import it at the new destinationto keep it happy. A failed shrink puts the VM into an inconsistent state. VMWare player (WMWare free?) == Missing a virtual disk management tool. Check for supported hardware? Better with 3D video. Uses more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-linux"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}