[CentOS] OT: Why VM?

Fri May 27 20:08:43 UTC 2011
Steve Thompson <smt at vgersoft.com>

On Fri, 27 May 2011, Digimer wrote:

> Live migration between physical hosts. Also, ease of recovery in the
> event of a failure. Can move the VM to entirely new hardware when the
> old hardware is no longer powerful enough... etc.

And if you have licensed software that ties its network license keys to a 
specific MAC address, you no longer have to tie the license server to a 
specific physical box.