Tim Cook wrote: > > > It appears that one can get more in the way of features out of > VMWare Server for free than with ESX, which is seemingly a hook > into buying more VMWare stuff. > > I've never looked at Sun xVM, in fact I didn't know it even > existed, but I do now. Thank you, I will research this some more! > > The only other variable, I guess, is the future of said > technologies given the Oracle takeover? There has been much > discussion on how this impacts ZFS, but I'll have to learn how xVM > might be affected, if at all. > > > Quite frankly, I wouldn't let that stop you. Even if Oracle were to > pull the plug on xVM entirely (not likely), you could very easily just > move the VM's back over to *insert your favorite flavor of Linux* or > Citrix Xen. Including Unbreakable Linux (Oracle's version of RHEL). >
I remember now why Xen was a no-go from when I last tested it. I rely on the 64 bit version of FreeBSD for most of my VM guest machines, and FreeBSD only supports running as domU on i386 systems. This is a monkey wrench! Sorry, just thinking outloud here... -- Joe Auty NetMusician: web publishing software for musicians http://www.netmusician.org j...@netmusician.org
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