On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy wrote: Hello Greg,
[First, let me carefully state that I have not used either of the proprietary products you mention.] If anyone has a legal way for me to have a look at them, without the need for me to sign an NDA, I'd be happy to do a more recent write-up comparing the various technologies and approaches, I started but didn't finish this: (Dated October 2002...) http://www.paul.sladen.org/vserver/howto.html > I've seen quite a few mentions of Virtuozzo and Ensim VPS solutions. Virtuozzo (based on the two-year-old kernel source code I've seen) is *very* like `vserver'. The code that I have is here: http://www.paul.sladen.org/vserver/aspcomplete/ Ensim is similar to FreeVSD in that [I believe] it is a pure-userspace solution and as you describe it is ``very like a chroot''. > The best I could determine is Virtuozzo is more like vmware, Definately not, it has the same advantages that vserver has--which is the security and separation without the overhead. Neither is Virtuozzo like UML (multiple kernels). H-Sphere can now use `vserver' underneath after the work IIRC Alex was paid to do in adding the features they specifically wanted. What Virtuozzo/Ensim/H-Sphere/Whatever *do* have going for them are the management tools built on top. Things like replication are wrapped up in a nice clickable HTML button and a end-user `lickable' GUI/Web front-end. The same reason people buy Cobalt Raqs; the *interface* is what they are paying for. Hope that helps, E&OE, corrections welcomed, -Paul -- War is inconsistent with Truth. London, GB _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver