[wplug] Alternatives to vmware

Petrucci, Joseph Joseph.Petrucci at ddiworld.com
Fri Apr 22 07:54:25 EDT 2005


I am playing with Xen and have had good results on a small scale (3 virtuals on one host). I am also a customer of Ryan's and I can tell you I have seen no difference between running a virtual server and running a standalone server as far as the user end of his virtual servers goes.

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Of David Ostroske
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 2:04 AM
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Subject: Re: [wplug] Alternatives to vmware


Hey Mike,

On 4/21/05, Michael P. O'Connor <mpop at mikeoconnor.net> wrote:
> I was wondering if there are any good free alternatives to vmware?  it
> would have to just be able to run a copy of linux under linux.

I've never used virtualization software, at least not consciously. But
I do have some good answers to your question.

Ryan Brown gave a talk on User Mode Linux back on January 15th. If you
want Linux on Linux, this is one way to do it.
http://wplug.org/meetings/one-meeting?wp_meeting_id=3159

Also, there's a recent upstart called Xen that I don't know anything
about. Might be overkill for your purposes, but like I said, I really
don't know.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/

> Michael P. O'Connor
> mpop at mikeoconnor.net
> http://www.mikeoconnor.net

-- 
David Ostroske <eksortso at gmail.com>

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