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October 4th, 2011 by
David Orlo –
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In the latest version of Oracle VirtualBox it looks like they went the extra distance and trumped all other virtualization platforms by adding the ability to impersonate each one of them. You read that correctly, the latest VirtualBox can now save a virtual machine in any of the most popular formats including,
VDI - Sun / Oracle VirtualBox
VMDK - VMWare Workstation, Server, ESX, ESXi
VHD - Microsoft Virtual PC, Hyper-V
HDD - Parallels Desktop
This is very interesting stuff, ...
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February 17th, 2011 by
David Orlo –
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Recently while working on the new Virtualization shootout testing I came across the issue that Microsoft Hyper-V doesn't offer any built in Physical to Virtual machine conversion tools so I set out for an easy way to convert a physical machine for some quick and simple testing.
I found two options and I will present them both, the first option is a tool I recently became familiar with due to the fact that we are considering ...
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February 7th, 2010 by
David Orlo –
Be the first to comment Tags: Citrix XEN, ESX, ESXi, Hyper-V, Oracle Virtual Box, Parallels Workstation, Performance Comparison, RedHat KVM, Shootout, Virtualization, VMWare

Once the new server is built I plan to revisit virtualization with some new contenders added to the list.
Here is the current bare metal line up
VMWare ESX
Microsoft Hyper-V
Citrix XEN
RedHat KVM
Windows VM
VMWare Workstation & Server
Oracle / Sun Virtual Box
Parallels Workstation
Linux VM
VMWare Workstation & Server
Oracle / Sun Virtual Box
Parallels Workstation
This will all run on the new server so it will be the same hardware each time around. I might do this before I put in the Raid ...
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May 11th, 2009 by
David Orlo –
2 Comments Tags: ESX, ESXi, Hyper-V, Performance Comparison, Shootout, Virtualization, VMWare

!!! -- UPDATE -- !!!
~~ UPDATE - I will not be contniuing this testing with this machine. I am finding that although I have all the proper drivers and can get everything to work, something still doesnt seem right. At least if anything we can learn that even with all the drivers Hyper-v runs HORRIBLE on an Nvidia chipset or possibly just runs horrible.
I am trying to get my hands on a T300 to ...