Re: [Hampshire] Yet Another Virtualisation Question

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Author: Hugo Mills
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To: adam.trickett, Hampshire LUG Discussion List
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Yet Another Virtualisation Question

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On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 04:07:22PM +0000, Dr Adam J Trickett wrote:
>     Is it worth creating several virtual servers
>     on the box, given the limited number of users
>     and services?

>
> Learning to use Xen[0] sounds fun and interesting, it's clearly a
> useful transferable skill, but at the same time these systems with
> six running VMs on them seems like a lot of administration.
>
> [0] Or something similar.


I'll put my hand up for qemu and one of kqemu or kvm. We run a lot
of these at work as test boxes. I have several kvm machines on my
laptop for testing, and a kqemu at home for doing 32-bit kernel builds
for the "small" boxes dotted around the house.

Hugo.

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