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Re: [LUG] xen or vmware?

 

<stallman>Xen, fool!

The evil proprietary VMWare will corrupt your very GNU Slash Soul, rendering you a servant of the malevolent Proprietary Empire!</stallman>

Er, I'd use Xen...
LXF67 has an article about it, you can probably download it from the site.

On 01/07/06, Adrian Midgley <amidgley2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Simon Waters wrote:
> Adrian Midgley wrote:
>
>> On Etch at the moment, Sarge if v stable.
>>
>
> vmware is proprietary isn't it?
>
> Steve Kemp is doing Xen packaging work for Debian, presumably for
> Bytemark (i.e. professionally). I think they are in unstable now, but
> I'm sure they are probably "professional quality", and you can buy good
> support in UK time zones (or host with the guys doing the packaging).
>
> We are still using UML for virtual servers for Neil and myself, and it
> still works, but was challenging to set up.
>
> What is the motivation for virtual servers. If it isn't compelling
> security concerns, I'd say sort it some other way - contractual -
> hardware (hardware is cheap).
>
>
Reducing power and heat...


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