[aklug] Re: Dedicated Virtualization

From: Shane R. Spencer <shane@bogomip.com>
Date: Wed Dec 08 2010 - 15:11:47 AKST

On 12/08/2010 10:03 AM, Christopher Howard wrote:
> Hey guys, at work I managed to get hold of one (pretty nice) spare PC, and I want it to be dedicated to just running VMs. The VMs will be mainly be used for testing purposes (e.g., experimenting with software/networking configurations).
>
> I was wondering if I should go with what I know (Qemu built on a Linux base) or if I should try out this "Xen" thing. Whatsay?
>

Check out OpenVZ/Linux-VServer and User-Mode-Linux.

I use UML for all large scale testing since it's so cheap on memory/cpu as everything runs
natively and with a reduced memory overhead.

- Shane
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