On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 08:04:01PM +0100, Adam Bower wrote:
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 07:37:53PM +0100, cl@isbd.net wrote:
Simple answer is install any of them, then install vmware/Xen/virtualisation system of choice (or the other way round depending on your virtualisation system of choice) then install all of them until you find one you like, it's not like you have to pay licensing fees :)
Yes, but it does use rather a lot of time!
Hmmn, possibly, but at least you will be up to speed with using your virtualisation software and debugging it. I'd personally say go for Ubuntu as it has good package management (as it uses .deb) rather than the others which use rpm (which always breaks for me when doing upgrades) and uses many parts of Debian under the hood (although the next release is going to be /quite/ different). I'd also use it because many aluggers who use vmware products also run them under Ubuntu (like me for example, I'd rather use Xen but due to the unique way my computer is setup it'd mean a reinstall which I cba to do right now).
Well that sounds like another plus for Ubuntu.
Thanks for all the comments so far.