Re: [Xen-users] differencing disks

[Bart Coninckx <bart.coninckx@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 09 July 2010 15:58:06 Grant McWilliams wrote:
> > If you're new to virtualization, and use it primarily on laptop for
> > testing/demo, I'd actually suggest you do not use Xen, and rather use
> > virtualbox/vmware. Also note that whatever method you use to provide
> > snapshot/rollback capability, it will incure some kind of overhead
> > (which can be significant), so be sure to test it first.
> >
> > --
> > Fajar
> 
> Agreed. Virtualbox has snapshotting built in and works well once you
> understand their crazy terminology.
> There are a lot of complaints in the VirtualBox forums about snapshotting
> not being straight forward but it does work.
> I had to set up a VM, then try different things to figure out what does
> exactly what but once I had it figured out then I used
> it a lot.
> 
> 
> 
> Grant McWilliams
> 
> Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use
> Windows."
> Now they have two problems.
> 

The same goes for VMware Server 2. No idea which is better, have no experience 
with Virtualbox.

B.

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