Virtualization Question ...

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 6:22 AM, Ben Duncan <bend at linux4ms.net> wrote:
> Ok, I have a 64 BIT test Mule set up Running Slack 64.
> PLENTY of memory and Disk space to test things.
>
> I want to Start installing some Virtual SERVER's, but nothing
> like VM PLAYER or Workstation. I want the VServers to start
> automagically along with their respective OS's at boot time.
>
> Any suggestion on what to use ? Xen, VMware Sphere ? anyone done
> anything like this ?

KVM/Qemu can do this easily.  I've got 6 servers at $DAYJOB doing this
with about 50 guest OS's.  I gave up on VMWare long ago.  I didn't see
a point in paying them for software that already ships with most
'modern' Linux distributions for free.  Everything that I've read
about Xen is that its going to end up dying a very slow death, as its
been outside the main kernel tree for years, and never seems quite
ready to get back in.  It keeps losing market share.


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