Thanks Ted. I have also used VMware (though not Server) extensively and agree that it's very cool. However that's in the Virtual Machine category and would incur more overhead than I'm willing to give up.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_virtualization for a discussion of various types of platform virtualization. See http://community.livejournal.com/openvz/25349.html for an excellent screencast introduction to OpenVZ. Rod Ted Deppner wrote: > No experience with VPSes, but plenty with VMWare Server (1.x and 2.x), > which is free, functional, and very cool. VMWare is stable and > isolated and I'd use it without question or reserve on anything along > these lines. As this isn't directly what you asked about, I'll simply > offer to answer any questions you may ask rather than wax eloquent at > this point. > > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Rod Roark <[email protected]> wrote: >> I want to put it into its own virtual private server -- NOT in a >> "virtual machine", but rather using "operating system level > [del] >> the Ubuntu (multiverse) repositories with very little hassle. Does >> anyone have experience with this or similar software that I should >> consider before making this choice? > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
