[Devel] Re: [RFC] Virtualization steps

[Bill Davidsen]

Kirill Korotaev wrote:

>> Frankly I don't see running 100 VMs as a realistic goal, being able 
>> to run Linux, Windows, Solaris and BEOS unmodified in 4-5 VMs would 
>> be far more useful.
>
> It is more than realistic. Hosting companies run more than 100 VPSs in 
> reality. There are also other usefull scenarios. For example, I know 
> the universities which run VPS for every faculty web site, for every 
> department, mail server and so on. Why do you think they want to run 
> only 5VMs on one machine? Much more! 

I made no commont on what "they" might want, I want to make the rack of 
underutilized Windows, BSD and Solaris servers go away. An approach 
which doesn't support unmodified guest installs doesn't solve any of my 
current problems. I didn't say it was in any way not useful, just not of 
interest to me. What needs I have for Linux environments are answered by 
jails and/or UML.

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bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
  CTO TMR Associates, Inc
  Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979