On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:11:26PM -0500, Stephen Harris wrote:
> I'm wondering what people recommend for virtual servers these days?
> CentOS 4 with a vserver kernel? Wait for CentOS 5 and use Xen? VMware?
> (Vmware is the heavy solution, but it does mean I could host a windows
> session if I wanted to). Or Solaris 10 and zones?
Personally I'm using VMWare-workstation, but it isn't an ideal solution:
- it costs
- it is hard to make VMs start at system boot
- it is a heavyweight solution
The reason I am using -Workstatin as opposed to the free -Server
offering is because -Server does not provide some virtual hardware
that is useful in a workstation environment.
I find it odd what drives your requirements in the end. In my
particular case, I am connecting to a Windows VM through a Sun Ray
session, and found my Windows VMs were less usefull without the sound
devices because Windows Movie Maker would not start on a system which
lacked a sound card. (And I wanted Windows Movie Maker to convert
video streams from the high-bitrate that comes from the camera down
to something a little more portable, not to actually view anything.)
I am probably going to split things up, though -- I have an older
system which I will move the Windows VMs to, and then run -Server on
my main system so I can do the other virtualization things I want to
(mostly experimenting with other OSs and sandboxing software
packages I am playing with) much easier.
I have a 900-series Intel Core Duo processor, purchased expressly so
that I could do Xen and the like but have found that they are not
quite ready for the kind of use I want to put them to.
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