Re: [Hampshire] chroot vs. virtual machine.

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Author: Samuel Penn
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] chroot vs. virtual machine.
On Tuesday 28 July 2009 16:30:04 David Ramsden wrote:
> And then there's always VServer
> (http://linux-vserver.org/Welcome_to_Linux-VServer.org). Which is in
> between a VM and a chroot. I'm using this on one production server where
> I had to run a 32-bit OS inside a 64-bit OS but didn't want to go down
> the VM route. I ended up putting each service in to a VServer (SSH,
> Apache, Exim, MySQL).


I'll second the suggestion of VServer. I've got 8 guests running
quite happily on a box with 2GB of RAM. Very lightweight since
they all share the same kernel.


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