Stephen Harris wrote: > I'm building a new server at home to handle most of my internal > requirements (mail, news, dns, dhcp, backups being the biggies). I also > want it to host a couple of virtual servers which are allowed incoming > connections from the internet (mail gateway, web server, ssh server); > these are virtual so if a hacker _can_ break in then they're limited as > to what they can see. > > At present the virtual machines are vserver instances on an old FC2 box. > > I'm wondering what people recommend for virtual servers these days? > CentOS 4 with a vserver kernel? Wait for CentOS 5 and use Xen? VMware? > (Vmware is the heavy solution, but it does mean I could host a windows > session if I wanted to). Or Solaris 10 and zones? > > Any thoughts? > Have you looked into using Centos 4 with OpenVZ? Best Regards, Camron Camron W. Fox Hilo Office High Performance Computing Group Fujitsu America, INC. E-mail: cwfox at us.fujitsu.com