John Summerfield wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Some of your users, I'm sure, need complete control of their Linux > > image to make sure they know how real live customers would work with > > their product. You have to offer these users this option, or they'll > > go behind your back to get this kind of access. Do you really want a > > flock of Hercules-powered penguins in your shop? :-) > > And what is wrong with a flock of Penguins on Hercules? > > It doesn't have to be hard to manage.
My point, which I clearly didn't make well enough, is that if the original poster doesn't offer a way for his clients to control their own Linux images, the users will put up their own Linux images on servers (boxes) the IS organization doesn't control, and they'll lose the economies of scale they may aspire to by going to Linux guests under VM. In other words, if he doesn't offer a "full control" option he won't have as many "Linux guests under vm. how to manage", which is, after all, the subject of the note. The question isn't whether there's anything wrong with running Linux under a Hercules image; the question is how many Hercules images would spring up outside the data center, away from the VM system they mean to use as the rookery for the Penguins. Nick
