Virtualization for the Masses

Ok, why YAVp (Yet Another Virtual product). Well this one distinguishes itself in several ways:

• The "Host" (Host is the Virutal Enviorn running the Guests), can be a Windows, Solaris x86 or Linux OS.
• The Guests can be many different OS's including Windows, Solaris, Linux, Dos, OS/2, etc.
• The Host machine does NOT require VT-x or AMD-V hardware support. It does its own run-time re-write of the offending code.

I use VB to run several linux platforms on my laptop and when they are stable I migrate the disk image to my production linux farm when I am happy.

Some thoughts on the VTx vs. Virtualbox stratigies:

http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2007/10/01/should-you-enable-intels-vt-x-in-virtualbox/