I can't help feel that we're missing the elephant in the room for this topic. Windows. Suppose you have 50 (100? more?) windows servers, some serving up multiple variations of a database, or multiple variations of an embedded gadget that hosts its own web server, or multiple versions of some other thing that runs on the same port. Putting these into Virtualization saves a lot of power for these sorts of companies as it reduces <n> servers to 1 for a platform that doesn't have a history of jails, or chroot, or things like that.
From the Linux side, it can also be easier to audit a server that hosts one or two dedicated things on an OS vs. a server containing a grab bag of things needing conflicting version of this library or that library, or some dependency that is conflicting, or whatever. Virtualization has its place. It's neither panacea nor useless. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
