You may want to check out Proxmox, i use it for the cloud as VM env., it is amazing!, not sure how it would work however on strictly a desktop environment. It is free, even though it bugs you to sign up for support.
-tl On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 11:43 AM, David Collier-Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/21/2015 09:45 PM, Giles Orr wrote: > >> Today at work we had an interesting discussion about Digital >> Ocean: the suggestion was made (and undoubtedly it's obvious to many >> on this list, but it was eye-opening to me, I'm still getting my head >> around disposable machines) that if you weren't sure an upgrade to a >> droplet would work, just clone it, do the upgrade on the clone and see >> how it goes. Then you can make your decision and destroy the unwanted >> version. >> > ... > >> I've already ruled out OpenVZ as it looks like all virtualized systems >> have to use the same kernel. >> > On Solaris, we did tons with very-lightweight VMs, using code for security > isolation that could create "containers" that looked just like machines. > > The only limitation was the common OS version, and you could be ahead of > the evrsion in userspace stuff like shared libraries. We rarely found > cases where we wanted a different OS, just some where we wanted to emulate > an older one. > > --dave > > -- > David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify > System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest > [email protected] | -- Mark Twain > > > --- > Talk Mailing List > [email protected] > http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >
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