UML vs. vserver vs. xen

[Daniel Armstrong]

On 1/5/06, Daniel Armstrong <dwarmstrong-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 1/5/06, Fraser Campbell <fraser-eicrhRFjby5dCsDujFhwbypxlwaOVQ5f at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > If you haven't tried the Xen Demo CD you should take a look, worked like
> > a charm on my laptop ... 3 operating systems running with full graphical
> > desktop (via VNC) and flawless networking in 512 MB of RAM from a live CD.
>
> Thank-you Adam and Fraser for the feedback. The Xen +  vserver
> combination is an interesting idea - right now I am downloading the
> torrent of that Xen Demo CD you mention, and will give it a go.
>

That Xen 3.0 Demo CD is great - I am running it on a Sempron 2500+
with 1GB RAM, and have 5 guest OSes running with no noticable
slowdown. I have Firefox opened  into Gmail on one of the guests, and
am posting from there.

Definitely worth further exploration, methinks.
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