Hi

I have been using vmware-server for a while, but would like to use a
open source product instead, so I dove into virtualbox-ose, looks okay
but I have run into some hiccups, can't install a 64bit guest downer
for me.


My next thought, before going back to vmware, was qemu, does it handle
64b guests and can I start a vm headless, that was the other problem i
had with virtualbox

Alex

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On 6/4/08, Alex Samad <alex@samad.com.au> wrote:

> My next thought, before going back to vmware, was qemu, does it handle
> 64b guests and can I start a vm headless, that was the other problem i
> had with virtualbox

I tried it with the 64-bit sabayon dvd I have here and it tells me it
only thinks I have an i686 CPU (I have amd64) so I suspect not. The
manpage only indicates (via -M ?) that it supports PC and isa only PC.
I suspect it's 32-bit only.


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On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 10:52 +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have been using vmware-server for a while, but would like to use a
> open source product instead, so I dove into virtualbox-ose, looks okay
> but I have run into some hiccups, can't install a 64bit guest downer
> for me.
>
>
> My next thought, before going back to vmware, was qemu, does it handle
> 64b guests and can I start a vm headless, that was the other problem i
> had with virtualbox
>
> Alex

See here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_virtual_machines

HTH
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damon@damtek.com
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On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 08:56:34AM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 10:52 +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I have been using vmware-server for a while, but would like to use a
> > open source product instead, so I dove into virtualbox-ose, looks okay
> > but I have run into some hiccups, can't install a 64bit guest downer
> > for me.
> >
> >
> > My next thought, before going back to vmware, was qemu, does it handle
> > 64b guests and can I start a vm headless, that was the other problem i
> > had with virtualbox
> >
> > Alex
>
> See here:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_virtual_machines

great thanks, exactual what I was after

>
> HTH
> --
> Damon L. Chesser
> damon@damtek.com
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser



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