Came across this today, seen someone talking about it in #gentoo-server. Not familiar with it at all, but containers are another route to go with virtualization.
lxc Linux Containers container namespace cgroup virtualisation http://lxc.sourceforge.net/ Assuming this is along the lines as Solaris Containers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_Containers On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 16:15 -0500, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 00:30 -0500, [email protected] wrote: > > I have heard alot of good things about promox over the last few > > months. Im going to give it a test drive on spare server in the next > > few weeks. http://www.proxmox.com/ > > > > I thought i would mention the product since xen isnt the only open > > source virtualization software available. Only time will tell if it > > lives up to the hype. > > There have always been choices other than xen[1], like openvz[2], > qemu[3], or bit newer virtualbox[4] which is very nice for Windows > virtualization doesn't require windows drivers like xen, in fact Windows > has no clue its virtualized. Like in qemu, but way faster in virtualbox. > Here is a list[5], but it has things like Java VMs in it, not just > virtualization platforms/solutions. > > I think the openvz. comparison between a bike and car[6] or car vs > bike[7] is rather interesting. Though they are a bit inaccurate that a > bike is only for 1. Guess they haven't seen tandem bikes, or ones with a > cart next to it, or the child seat on back :) > > > 1. http://www.xen.org/ > 2. http://wiki.openvz.org/Main_Page > 3. http://wiki.qemu.org/Main_Page > 4. http://www.virtualbox.org/ > 5. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine#List_of_virtual_machine_software > 6. http://wiki.openvz.org/Bike_vs_car > 7. http://wiki.openvz.org/Car_vs_bike > -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message. Any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
