Another solution one must pay attention to is KVM. Vasiliy Boulytchev vasiliy at linuxspecial.com Jay Lee wrote: > David Mackintosh wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:11:26PM -0500, Stephen Harris wrote: >> >> >>> 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? >>> >> >> Personally I'm using VMWare-workstation, but it isn't an ideal solution: >> - it costs >> - it is hard to make VMs start at system boot >> - it is a heavyweight solution >> >> > ESX is a "lighter-weight" solution (in that it runs on the bare-metal > rather than requiring a host OS that sucks up resources. It of course > is the most expensive solution but IMHO, it's worth every penny. ESX > is the only virtualization option I would care to put production > workloads on. >> The reason I am using -Workstatin as opposed to the free -Server >> offering is because -Server does not provide some virtual hardware >> that is useful in a workstation environment. >> >> I find it odd what drives your requirements in the end. In my >> particular case, I am connecting to a Windows VM through a Sun Ray >> session, and found my Windows VMs were less usefull without the sound >> devices because Windows Movie Maker would not start on a system which >> lacked a sound card. (And I wanted Windows Movie Maker to convert >> video streams from the high-bitrate that comes from the camera down >> to something a little more portable, not to actually view anything.) >> > > VMWare Server can do sound, it's just that the default virtual machine > doesn't include a sound card. Just go to the settings for the VM, add > new hardware and add a sound card. Still Workstation does a number of > handy things that Server doesn't, multiple snapshots for instance... > > Jay > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >