I like VirtualBox. www.virtualbox.org
They have a rather good enterprise solution as well. On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Chris McQuistion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I've used VMWare, in the past, and I currently use Virtual Iron, because it > has fairly simple administration and is far cheaper than VMWare, if you want > the bells and whistles. > The big reasons to use VMWare or Virtual Iron (in my opinion) is the nice > gui administration tools and their ability to run virtualized Windows guests > very well, which has not worked well for me, with Xen based virtualization > under Red Hat or SuSE. > > Chris > > > On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 4:24 PM, andrew mcelroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> Greetings, >> >> I am not trying to start a flame war or a rant, but I am trying to get a >> feel for what Open Source virtualization solutions are actually used. >> >> Currently I have a few servers virtualized inside Xen. >> However, I keep hearing that KVM is "the way to go"TM for hosting websites >> if you must stick to something open source. >> >> The purpose of these virtualized servers are to serve out either wordpress >> mu sites or ruby on rails sites. >> >> In the arena of hosting I have ran across OpenVZ, KVM and Xen. >> >> I was wondering what everyone is using and why. >> > -- " ' With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we're all damaged." - Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie - Alex Smith (K4RNT) - Nashville, Tennessee USA --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
