If you read this blog regularly or heard me speak, you've probably had to endure an enthusiastic rant about virtualization. I think it's a great thing that can make your life much easier. Now that X86 Virtualization is commonly available, we can run a guest operating system just as fast as if it were the only operating system running on the hardware. Nice.
The existing players have a new competitor though... and I think VirtualBox will shake things up a bit.
Here's the state of the product line up as I see it.
Xen is awesome, powerful, open source, cool... and Linux only. And you've got to be a Linux guru to install and run it. Recently it's made huge leaps forward in ease of use, but I only mention it here so I don't get dozens of emails telling me I missed ~the~ major player. It's what your IT department will use, but most end users won't.
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