kvm, or kernel-based virtual machine, is a device driver and userspace component for Linux that utilizes hardware virtualization extensions such
as Intel’s VT to create virtual machines running on a Linux host.
Home page : http://sourceforge.net/projects/kvm
“User-friendly” Review : http://linux.inet.hr/finally-user-friendly-virtualization-for-linux.html
Reasons to try the VMware Player 2.0 BETA
Guests to try on VMware Player 2.0 BETA
New Features in XenSource 3.2
· Multi-processor support (SMP) for Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP
guests - delivering scalable virtualization of Exchange, SQL Server, and other
multi-threaded and compute-intensive applications.
· Windows 2000 guests - enabling consolidation of the vast majority of deployed
Windows server workloads.
· Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server 10 SP1 guests - supporting unmodified installation with the
full performance benefits of paravirtualization.
· Improved Windows guest support - providing accelerated network
performance, ability to suspend/resume virtual machines, up to 8GB RAM
per Windows guest, and signed drivers with WHQL certification.
· iSCSI SAN support - delivering affordable networked storage support.
· VLAN trunk support for virtual bridges - providing network traffic isolation.
· CPU, disk and network resource control - enabling IT organizations to deliver
more server resources to the highest-priority workloads.
Edit the VMX file and
ADD sound
sound.present = “TRUE”
sound.fileName = “-1″
sound.autodetect = “TRUE”
ADD USB
usb.present = “TRUE”
usb.generic.autoconnect = “FALSE”