Robert,

----- "Robert Holtz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The two main ones that I know of are Xen and VMWare.  VMWare seems to be the 
> most capable inre: number and size of vm's allowed.  When looking at Xen it 
> appears that since Citrix acquired them the free version is cripple-ware and 
> is very restrictive.

Xen virtualization is included as part of CentOS 5.  Xensource's XenServer 
Exoress Edition, so far as I can tell, hasn't changed at all since Citrix took 
them over - dual-socket with upto 4GB of RAM, and four virtual machines.  What 
does XenSource's product have to do with CentOS.

Regarding VMware, are you talking about the free VMware Server or the very 
expensive VMware ESX/Infrastructure?  If the former, there is a lot more 
overhead with VMware Server when compared to Xen but VMware Server will allow 
you to run unmodified OSes... whereas Xen requires VT hardware support in the 
CPU to create fully-virtualized aka unmodified OSes.

If you are wanting to run Linux on Linux, I'd recommend you look into OpenVZ 
and/or Linux-VServer.

Oh, and while I'm here, I'll plug my recent interview with the Linux-VServer 
project leader:

Interview with Linux-VServer Project Leader Herbert Pƶtzl
http://www.montanalinux.org/linux-vserver-interview.html

TYL,
-- 
Scott Dowdle
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