Hello All,

I recently tried both the free VMWare GSX server and the quasi-free virtualbox with gui.  I ended with GSX for two reasons.

o Virtualbox kernel panics under the Debian FAI install kernel after about 10 minutes of package installs.  Not sure why it dies, but since I want to use VMs to test new installations to keep machines from breeding in my office, this was a show-stopper for me.

o Setting up bridged networking and the tap interfaces to share the host connection happens outside the virtual application.  Setting them up I found to be a pain, even though I eventually got it working.  The GSX install seems to do this for you which saved a lot of time.

-Adam


Mike Leo wrote:
> I wasn't at the meeting, but anytime virtualization I have to mention
> virtualbox.com....works better than VMWare Workstation plus its free!

Correction:
http://www.virtualbox.org/