<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Well I didn't mean sell, what I meant to say was 'sell' in a kinda 'free' way? I'll<br>rephrase it, you 'got me interested in.. xxx'.<br><br>I agree with your comments, I'm sure one or more than one of these will get into<br>kernel soon. However, with tend for virtualisation to be done with hardware, is it a really<br>needed thing?<br><br>the Big Mainframes from IBM do this kinda thing, your operating system does'nt even<br>know it's virtual? Th'at got to be a good thing<br><br>I'll have to try out kvm and see how it compares to openvz.<br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 1/10/08, gordon dunlop <i><astrozubenel@googlemail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: gordon dunlop <astrozubenel@googlemail.com><br>Subject: Re: [dundee] VMWare Server 2.0<br>To:
toxicnaan@yahoo.co.uk, "Tayside Linux User Group" <dundee@lists.lug.org.uk><br>Date: Wednesday, 1 October, 2008, 8:31 AM<br><br><pre>2008/9/30 Lee Hughes <toxicnaan@yahoo.co.uk>:<br>> well, Gordon, you can't sell me on vmware,<br><br>Lee I am not trying to sell anybody anything, when it comes to which<br>virtualisation technology to use it is horses for courses i.e. user<br>requirements. I am just noticing the rapid improvement in the free<br>offerings that VMWare are giving out (due to virtualisation<br>competition hotting up). Red Hat have recently bought Qumranet, the<br>company behind KVM which is in the Linux kernel. Whilst Xen is the<br>virtualisation technology of choice for Red Hat, the rationale behind<br>this acquisition is to maintain the open source nature of KVM and to<br>develop it within the Linux kernel. So as KVM development improves its<br>functionality, there will be a time when there is a total Linux
kernel<br>virtualisation solution and no-one will really need Virtual Box,<br>VMWare or Xen. A couple of years ago there was talk of having Xen and<br>OpenVZ fully implemented within the Linux kernel, whilst there are<br>large chunks of code from Xen and OpenVZ within the Linux kernel, this<br>has never happened.<br><br>Gordon<br><br><br><br><br><br>> Cheers,<br>> Lee<br>> 'your reality is my virtual machine'<br>><br>><br>><br>><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list<br>dundee@lists.lug.org.uk http://dundee.lug.org.uk<br>https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee<br>Chat on IRC, #tlug on dundee.lug.org.uk<br></pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>