On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:33:21PM -0600, Robert Becker Cope wrote:

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At present the virtual machines are vserver instances on an old FC2 box.

VMware has released VMware Server as a free product. It is worth looking at. I

Yup, I mentioned that as an option on my initial list. I've got a test box running CentOS 4.4 and VMware. It's a heavy weight solution, but has advantages (I could potentially run Solaris 86 in a session, Windows in a session etc).

used to run a bunch of vserver instances, and while those did have some interesting advantages, I ended up rebuilding everything using VMware Server as I retired hardware. My reasons for this were simply that under VMware I could run any OS and the experience was pretty much identical to having real hardware.

This was my preferred approach (mostly for the reasons you suggested) but the overkill of a whole VM for just an sshd process is what lead me to asking the question here in the first place.

Thanks for your input!