[NTLUG:Discuss] Virtualization recomendations (was Video card recommendations)

[Stuart Johnston]

Bob Netherton wrote:
>>  I know something in this space will work out in
>> the long run.  KVM, maybe.
> 
> Where are the commercial distributions with respect to KVM ?   Most
> were lining up for the Xen train, at least before Citrix acquired
> XenSource.  I know that we're still strongly committed to it.   I
> don't see that much commitment to KVM out of the commercial guys, but
> someone please tell me if I'm wrong.

I've been pretty happy with KVM on Debian Lenny (not commercial, I 
know).  Being run in user-space, it fill a different niche than Xen. 
More like VMWare Workstation.  Say you need to run Windows, but only 
every once and a while.  Or, you want to try out the latest Ubuntu? 
Just boot straight from the ISO without rebooting your desktop.