Simon P. Ditner wrote:
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.
Very interesting! Do you know if either VMware and Xen allow access to raw
hardware (such as digium boards) from within the guest OS?
Of course * is quite usable even in environments with just SIP/IAX
phones and remote DIDs in
such an environment; I currently run a small setup using *
(non-virtually, on OpenBSD) with just
those two types of devices.
