Virtualization Product of the Year
 

For when you absolutely have to run Windows.

--jeremy

Or you need more than one Linux machine when you only have one physical machine.. ;)

Dammit Ipod touch, I can't make it work with my Slackbox ...

How about DOSBox or UAE? ;)

or when you want to test or review distros!

VirtualBox.

Those are emulators, not virtual machines

In that case, how about an emulator of the year poll? ;)

V-box.

VirtualBox allows me to run the stuff I need that Wine cannot handle.

vmware is the easiest one

Virtualbox, not for running windows, but for testing out other linux distros.

virtualisation of the year
 

Vbox has to take the Oscars as it has come on in leaps for ease of use on open source. Ubuntu must have had a relationship with them in the past as it was easy to install on but other flavours of linux meant you had to do the trawling thing.Then get 'n' number of error messages and hve to worry the likes of yourselves.

Fred.

i used VirtualBox this year. it worked good.

I use kvm on all servers and desktops (qemu/virtualbox where the cpu doesn't have the instructions)

Both VMware and VBox have their strong suits.
Fortunately I have room for both!

virtualization doesn't mean that you are running windows. It just means that you are running another OS. You could run another linux, unix or any other type of OS.

Guess i should read the whole post, many others have said this too.

Yes, I was just being a bit snarky. I use quite a few of these myself, and don't run Windows at all.

--jeremy

I've only used Qemu so far, to try out old versions of Slackware (3.5 and 8.1). Interesting.

Virtual Box rocks.

V-Box beats QEMU for only one reason, the seamless mode. I have only one app that need windows (performance is so slow in wine as to make it useless) and I love to have it on my desktop with everything else rather than in a window of windows.

vmware is the easiest one to use. this is the tool i used to get a test of linux using knoppix live cd and it made me go crazy and the rest is history. this is the best/coolest/easiest one both on win and linux. Of late there have been a flood of virtualization utilities and one that works as teh best emulator is obviously QEMU; the basic one.

VirtualBox..
even though its not easy as VMware Workstation.
but its better than VMware server/client, and free.

Virtualbox has to have it over VMWare.

VBox for me. Light fast and functional.

With Quad Core entering the mainstream in 2008, Virtualisation is fast turning out to be something done by every Joe Sixpack, not just geeks. In times like this, I think the product which is easy to use, feature rich, popular, but n00b friendly and available on multiple platforms wins. I think VirtualBox ruled the year 2008.

VirtualBox is fine.

Solaris Zones!!!! ;)

I started with VMWare Server a couple years ago to run TurboTax in Windows and run Linux servers for web services and email. The VMWare documentation, community support and product reliability is awesome. I learned a lot about virtulization reading up on and using VMWare Server. They lost me during the shift from v1.x to v2.x of VMWare Server and gave me a chance to look around.

The KVM approach of using the Linux kernel as the hypervisor, QEMU as the emulator and leveraging the virtualization capabilities of the Intel and AMD CPUs caught my attention. Being able to use the latest Linux kernel and tools to manage the virtual machine process was refreshing. While KVM is a relatively young project and is still under heavy development it is my virtualization tool of choice now.

Likewise; great for distro testing.

Voted Xen,... hopefully KVM next year. :)

I've used lots of different versions of VMWare Workstation, Player and Server; on Linux and on Windows. I tried to give V-Box a shot ... but, frankly, for virtualizing large apps that need to run on Windows Server ... VMWare is more robust, more reliable and performs a lot better. VMWare is the clear winner in my book.

IMHO .. PSM

I have tried VMWare and VirtualBox. The latter gets my vote. It works well with Ubuntu.

VirtualBox!

I bought VMWare Workstation a few years ago (starting at v4.5?), but everytime I upgrade it, it fails to compile it's driver. Then I have to download some any-any thingy or plow around forum sites looking for someone that knows what source file to tweak to get it to compile. Right now I can't run it at all.

But no problems with VirtualBox.

Right now, I have Windows XP, FreeBSD 7.1, and OpenSolaris 8.11 running in virtual machines on my Mandriva Linux Host. I have 3GB, so each of the four (including the host) gets a little less than 3/4 GB.

Fun stuff.

I was glad to see some mention of KVM, but was hoping to hear more success stories with it.

It's description makes excellent logical sense and I've been expecting to use it, but I've had limited success so far.

KVM is pure awesome and win.

Virtualbox and vmware second.

vbox first and free(so far...)
vmware server (could they get just a little cheaper?)
qemu is third.

as for xen or kvm, have yet to try/test them.
parallels, doubt I'll ever put it on my box.

VirtualBox is ... no negative so far.

VMWare has my vote!
:)

debian

Horses for courses
 

...since we have been using KVM where we can, and QEMU where the CPU lacks the virtual hooks.

It should be time for another poll soon, no?