[GTALUG] Virtualized OSes

[ted leslie]

You may want to check out Proxmox, i use it for the cloud as VM env., it is
amazing!, not sure how it would work
however on strictly a desktop environment. It is free, even though it bugs
you to sign up for support.

-tl

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 11:43 AM, David Collier-Brown <davec-b at rogers.com>
wrote:

> On 04/21/2015 09:45 PM, Giles Orr wrote:
>
>> Today at work we had an interesting discussion about Digital
>> Ocean: the suggestion was made (and undoubtedly it's obvious to many
>> on this list, but it was eye-opening to me, I'm still getting my head
>> around disposable machines) that if you weren't sure an upgrade to a
>> droplet would work, just clone it, do the upgrade on the clone and see
>> how it goes.  Then you can make your decision and destroy the unwanted
>> version.
>>
> ...
>
>> I've already ruled out OpenVZ as it looks like all virtualized systems
>> have to use the same kernel.
>>
> On Solaris, we did tons with very-lightweight VMs, using code for security
> isolation that could create "containers" that looked just like machines.
>
> The only limitation was the common OS version, and you could be ahead of
> the evrsion in userspace stuff like shared libraries.  We rarely found
> cases where we wanted a different OS, just some where we wanted to emulate
> an older one.
>
> --dave
>
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