Jeff,. I'm aware of all that--but the OP is apparently not wanting to run a server. If I were in fact setting up a server, I too would dispense with a GUI on it.
However, I do tend to focus on the original question, not answering other needs that have not been asked. Running a VM can indeed be worthwhile; however, that isn't simply to extend one's understanding of CLI issues--which, again, IIRC was the original request. David --- In [email protected], J <dreadpiratej...@...> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 03:36, dbneeley <dbnee...@...> wrote: > > I'm still mystified as to why you would wish to run a CLI-only distro, VM > > or not. > > > > After all, a CLI window can be opened easily in any version of Linux of > > which I am aware and the results would be pretty much the > > same. > > Because if you're running a server that needs to handle the load of > hundreds of thousands of access requests *or more* per hour, you want > every bit of resource allocated to handling those requests. You don't > want 25-40% of your system resources used up just to run a GUI. > > Or insert any other resource intensive use for a server (which in > most, though not all cases) that needs to be up and available 99.9% of > the time. > > > The only advantage running any OS in a VM would be to gain experience using > > the VM, unless I'm missing something here. > > There's lots of advantages to running in VMs... using VMs, I can load > my primary OS and can evaluate, test and use any other OS, or > combinations of OSs.... I've created clouds and HA clusters in VMs on > my laptop. > > On servers, I've used VMs to run 80+ instances of an OS on one set of > hardware... > > From a professional point of view, virtualizaton (using things like > VMWare, KVM or Xen) allows a company to buy a server and get 100% > utilization of it's resources, instead of buying a server that may sit > 50% idle most of the time. Not to mention that they can condense the > amount of hardware they have to maintain: e.g. it's easier to maintain > one server with 30 VM webservers (and cheaper too) than to run 30 > individual bare metal web servers. > ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
