Re: virtualization

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I use VirtualBox from Oracle (formerly from Sun). It's free and there is a conversion path for existing VMWare images to be utilized in VirtualBOx. I have done it several time myself. VitualBox has a friendly GUI and well as a powerful CLI for running headless.

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On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 3:44 PM, John G. Heim <jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Anybody have any experience with the various virtualization options out there? My department runs VMWare but I don't want to pay $200 for a VMWare Workstation license for my personal machine if its not going to be accessible or if there is something better that is open source.  I want to create a bunch of Windows virtual machines to learn a little something about Windows networking. I figured I'd use VMWare to learn a little about that at the same time. But I don't want to get bogged down with the virtualization stuff.

Also, does anybody know if VMWare esxi is really free? Its free for download, I know that. And I know you can download a 60 day evaluation version. But it looks like you can download older versions for free. Its hard to tell because the VMWare web site isn't real clear. I'm guessing that's deliberate. I don't want to wipe out my linux install only to find that esxi is going to stop working in 60 days.



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