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I would like to know if there is anything that is free, easy to use and doesn't cost money like Parallels and VMWare...? I've heard of Qemu by chance, is ...
  1. 05-18-2007 #1
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    A good, but free VM

    I would like to know if there is anything that is free, easy to use and doesn't cost money like Parallels and VMWare...? I've heard of Qemu by chance, is it good, easy to use? And/or are there others that I might rather want to try...I'm not sure but it seems as if Qemu works from CLI
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    There are many:
    QEMU (faster with the kqemu kernel module, and even faster with KVM)
    VirtualBox
    Xen

    and VMware has a free edition too (VMware server or VMware player).

    About QEMU on Debian Etch:
    Techno Wizah: Debian HOW-TO : QEMU virtual machine
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    Good to hear there are some alternatives. Which would be fastest? I've heard of Qemu and Xen and do they work from GUI or CLI and how user-friendly is it? Only CLI experience I have considering apps are irssi, nano and mpg321 :P

    Thanks for the help
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    CentOS 5 is an easy way to get XEN installed and working (choose virtualization during the installation). You can run virtual machines with GUI (usable, but not as fast). CLI is fast of course! Hint: install 32bit virtual machines, so they wont freeze as 64bit do. XEN is much more user friendly now, but you will still need to know how to edit config file if you want more control over virtual machines, or if you want to virtualize Windows (to keep worms and viruses in a jail ).
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    as antidrugue says vmware server is free. I just installed it today and it works fine. BTW do you want it for using windows? XEN doesn't support windows on open suse 10.2

    The link for vmware server is here Download VMware Server, free VMware, virtual server - VMware

    You can download the tar.gz file or the rpm and then need to register for a free registration key
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    If you are planning to use the virtual machine for anything with graphics then VMware Player is a better option that VMware Server. It doesn't have as many features for setting up a virtual machine, but it is faster when it comes to graphics. I blogged about it recently and a VMware developer confirmed my observation.
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    XEN doesn't support windows on open suse 10.2
    I do not know about SuSE 10.2, but XEN does support Windows in CentOS 5. Not out of the box of course. You need to edit config file to be able to install it:
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    apic=0
acpi=0
    As proof of concept, I'm posting this message from win2k running in XEN.
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    Oh.. I may be wrong but our Systems administrator in Dallas runs CentOS. (I like Suse coz it comes out of the box with many software) He needs to use vmware to run windows. Maybe he just doesn't know how to configure XEN. Anyway maybe next time I will try out when I reinstall Suse 10.2
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