> Advantage: It's free, or close to it. > > Disadvantages: > It doesn't take any advantage of the hardware it's running on.
It doesn't need to > If an application manages to crash the system, it has crashed all the > systems And if an app crashes the hypervisor down goes the box (console scrolling ?). So its a risk thing > It doesn't provide the degree of virtual environment separation that z/VM > does Its specifically designed not to > It doesn't really isolate the resource usage; everything is in one Linux box Ditto > It's not a real virtual environment; It's just a way of containing several > users within a separated environment within a single Linux image. Ditto - and because of this its vastly more efficient especially for memory usage. You are comparing apples and oranges here. I guess if you wanted hypervisor type seperation on the cheap someone should port lguest to S/390. Alan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
