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* Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMU | * Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMU | ||
* Product/project page: https://www.qemu.org/ | * Product/project page: https://www.qemu.org/ | ||
* Overall rating: 🚌⏰ (2/5 random emoji) | |||
QEMU is powerful because it can do CPU emulation, which sets it apart from the other hypervisors on this page. Unfortunately, it's ridiculously difficult to setup and use. I suggest using a GUI wrapper if possible, or to launch it from a script rather than a single command. This way, once you have the settings workable, you can save them for later use. | |||
==VMware Workstation== | ==VMware Workstation== | ||
* Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware_Workstation | * Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware_Workstation | ||
* Product/project page: https://www.vmware.com/products/workstation-pro.html | * Product/project page: https://www.vmware.com/products/workstation-pro.html |
Revision as of 13:10, 3 December 2019
A hypervisor (or virtual machine monitor, VMM) is a computer software, firmware or hardware that creates and runs virtual machines.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor
This page is intended to be a place for me to 'review' these hypervisors. If it's listed here, I've used it.
Type 1 / Bare-Metal Hypervisors
Microsoft Hyper-V
- Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-V
- Product/project page: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization
Proxmox VE
- Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxmox_Virtual_Environment
- Product/project page: https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-ve
VMware ESXi
- Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware_ESXi
- Product/project page: https://www.vmware.com/products/esxi-and-esx.html
XCP-ng
- Wikipedia page: NA
- Product/project page: https://xcp-ng.org/
Xen
- Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xen
- Product/project page: https://xenproject.org/
Type 2 / Userspace Hypervisors
Oracle VM VirtualBox
- Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtualBox
- Product/project page: https://www.virtualbox.org/
- Overall rating: ☂♑️👺↩️👻 (5/5 random emoji)
VBox is my go-to solution for running VMs on my workstations. Whether I'm working in Windows or Linux, it's easy to use and works reliably.
QEMU
- Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMU
- Product/project page: https://www.qemu.org/
- Overall rating: 🚌⏰ (2/5 random emoji)
QEMU is powerful because it can do CPU emulation, which sets it apart from the other hypervisors on this page. Unfortunately, it's ridiculously difficult to setup and use. I suggest using a GUI wrapper if possible, or to launch it from a script rather than a single command. This way, once you have the settings workable, you can save them for later use.
VMware Workstation
- Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware_Workstation
- Product/project page: https://www.vmware.com/products/workstation-pro.html