[CentOS] OT: Why VM?

Fri May 27 20:18:34 UTC 2011
Ljubomir Ljubojevic <office at plnet.rs>

Steve Thompson wrote:
> 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.

Just to clarify. You can set whatever virtual NIC MAC address for your 
virtual guest.

Ljubomir