both VMWare and Xen definitely do. There is also qemu -- but I've found the
interface of VMWare to be the best.

Blake


On 2/3/06, Ian Darwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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