Re: Which virtualization software should I choose

[Nicolas Le Cam]

2009/6/11 Paul Vriens :
> On 06/11/2009 11:30 AM, Nicolas Le Cam wrote:
> > 2009/6/11 Paul Vriens:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Just upgraded to Fedora 11 and (yet again) having issues with VMware
> > > Workstation.
> > >
> > > VMware still doesn't support Fedora (as a host) and I'm tired of
> > > fixing/patching things, again and again.
> > >
> > > I need to run several Windows versions (95 up to Vista for now) for our
> > > winetest and I really like the snapshot possibilities of VMware.
> > >
> > > Suggestions, recommendations?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Paul.
> >
> > I'm using VirtualBox. Apart from some problems around d3d/opengl and
> > interruptions, it works quiet well. It also manages snapshots and have
> > a CLI.
> > See w2k-sp4-fr results on winetest. It has passed the test suite once
> > (I didn't run latest builds but I will).
> >
> > Unfortunately, I don't know VMWare Workstation at all, so I can't tell
> > you what are the differences.
>
> Just installed VirtualBox and it does have snaphots but not so extensive as
> VMware. In VMware I have some W2K snapshots:
> - out-of-the-box
> - SP1
> - SP2
> - SP3
> - SP4 + Windows Update
>
> I can freely choose which I want to go to. Not so with VirtualBox I'm afraid
> as they are all on top of each other.
>
> (I guess for now I keep my other, F10, box around).
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Paul.

I thought it was possible but never tried as I'm just using an
up-to-date clean install, it suffices for my needs.
If I have some time I'll try more things with those snapshots.