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Hi All,

I am putting together a high end workstation quote for a customer. He is going to want a Virtual Machine, specifically so he can run iTunes (his wife buys music through iTunes and sync’s them to her iPod).

So which VM would you guys use? KVM or Virtual Box?

I am very familiar with KVM and adore it. It’s USB support is kind of weird though (iPod).

I have been seriously burned by Virtual Box before and do not care much for the way Oracle does things, so I would have to bite my pride if Virtual Box would be better to run iTunes. (Who knows, maybe Virtual Box has gotten better.)

What do you guys think?

Many thanks,
-T

4 thoughts on - ITunes

  • For personal laptops or workstations, I tend to run Windows natively for the raw speed of the native apps and to get the latest drivers, and run Scientific Linux in VirtulalBox, which has worked very well. I
    much prefer the user interface of Virtualbox to the virt-manager suite for KVM or for Xen. It’s just been easier, for me, to get tools like the VMware clients or Xencenter for managing *other* virtual environments to work well on Windows, and Outlook for Exchange servers has been critical in too many environments.

    SL runs very well and robustly in virtualization with all the virtualization technologies.

  • wife

    VMware Player may be a good option for you. It’s free and has decent “USB
    passthrough” support for the type of USB interaction you need. I have not tried as much with Virtual Box to enable passthrough, but it has functioned when I did, also.

    PJ

  • Hi Nico,

    The guy’s wife is a Junkware magnet. So they were looking to have the base in Linux. SL 7 doesn’t support Wine 32, so we were looking at Fedora.

    -T