Bo Lynch sent a missive on 2010-02-05: > On Fri, February 5, 2010 9:02 am, Athmane Madjoudj wrote: >>> Whats your thoughts on Vmware server over esxi? >>> Really do not want to have to budget for Virtualization if I do not >>> have to. >>> Thanks for any info. >> >> Here is a comparison of VMware ESXi and Server notice that server >> doesn't cost money. >> >> http://www.vmware.com/products/server/faqs.html >> >> both are proprietary >> there are a lot of good FOSS alternatives such: >> >> KVM (require a modern hardware) >> Xen (need a patched kernel: available in centos repos) OpenVZ (need >> a patched kernel: available in openvz repos, mainly for VPS but >> personalty i use it) >> >> HTH >> >> -- >> Athmane Madjoudj > > Does anyone have any experience with KVM or OpenVZ? If I can stick to > something that is not proprietary that would be great. I didn't realize > there were so many options. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Bo OpenVZ is containerisation and not virtualisation and therefore limits the os running to a minor version of the base os. If you need to have say Centos4, Centos5, Solaris 10, Windows on the same box then this is not for you.