VMWare is definitely a nice product. I use it extensively in my lab for cross platfrom testing. Nothing beats having the ability to totally muck up a system and then jump back to a previous checkpoint without even stoping the virtual machine -- or boot an ISO CD image without burning it to a CD to play with the lastest [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;-)
There is also an opensource alternative called "Xen": http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/index.html It requires a slightly customized kernel, but RedHat is incorporating Xen into future releases of Fedora and RHE, and I imagine other distros are as well. Cheers, Simon P. Ditner On 2/3/06, David Fishburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This might be interesting, it would at least allow us to create test > Asterisk servers using a virtual machine before we move it to production. > > http://news.com.com/VMware+to+make+server+product+free/2100-1012_3-6034615.h > tml?tag=nefd.top > > Free (as in beer), whenever that happens. > > Dave > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- | First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, | then you win. -- Mohandas Gandhi | | The Toronto Asterisk Users Group | Join the discussion group by visiting http://taug.ca | or by sending email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
