Right - but if you're going to run a box 24x7, you can just run squeezecenter right on there. Don't get me wrong, VMs are great, but a lot of the attraction for server VMs is that you have a better shot at server stability if you don't have to worry about the interplay between server apps. VMs also have the advantage that you can have different sets of users/permissions, and the two are as isolated as separate machines would be (actually an interesting thing for a home user - run a separate "PC" in your DMZ without having to be overly paranoid about outside attacks). So anyway, yeah, reducing two (or more) servers to one definitely saves power - but there is some overhead, particularly if you're running a VM on top of another OS rather than having a simple extra-efficient "server" to run VMs in (which is pretty pricey) and if you're going for low power and aren't worried about server-app interaction...
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