A fully working VM for Hardy Host

[weex]

Hello,

I've tried getting VirtualBox OSE and VMWare server working on my Hardy laptop but VirtualBox(via synaptic) has a broken network adapter and the vmmon module for vmware won't compile on 2.6.24-18-generic(compains of predeclared uintptr, etc). So I'm looking for another way to run a couple virtual machines. KVM, Qemu, xen all come to mind but rather than try each one out, just wanted to ask here. Anyone have any luck with any of these running on top of Hardy?

Thanks in advance.

[Tsuroerusu]

Qemu emulates like a Pentium 2 or something, if you want something that actually runs fast, Qemu is a very bad choice IMO. It does have a "accelerator module", but I have found that to not work very well at all. In some cases I have had guest OSes crash when they tried probing something.

KVM, AFAIK, requires the availability of hardware assisted virtualization in the processor. I am referring to Intel's VT technology and AMD's AMD-V technology. Generally my feeling about KVM is immaturity, but I don't have much experience with it, so I could of course be mistaken.

Xen is pretty much only for server stuff. It doesn't provide a framebuffer or any other graphical pathway into the virtual machine like say VMware does, it's more like a server without a monitor, in other words, you have to SSH into it.

[snarkout]

I'm using Sun's evil binary virtualbox on Hardy for windows hosts and it works well enough - both wired and wifi on my t43 work fine in the guests. What's broken about your network adapter?

[Linc]

Xen is pretty much only for server stuff. It doesn't provide a framebuffer or any other graphical pathway into the virtual machine like say VMware does, it's more like a server without a monitor, in other words, you have to SSH into it.

Bologna. You get a fine gui console from virt-manager. Not to mention you can always stuff vncserver on the xen machine if you're so inclined.

[Tsuroerusu]

Xen is pretty much only for server stuff. It doesn't provide a framebuffer or any other graphical pathway into the virtual machine like say VMware does, it's more like a server without a monitor, in other words, you have to SSH into it.

Bologna. You get a fine gui console from virt-manager.

Ah yes, of course, I can't believe I forgot that!

Not to mention you can always stuff vncserver on the xen machine if you're so inclined.

That's true, and I think virt-manager with help with that, although I personally hate VNC, but that's just me, it's definitely an option, I agree with that.