On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 20:09 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 17:52, bruce wrote: > > > Is there an Open Source Vmware for FC? Or is Xen the closest we have? > > VMware server is free but not open source. > > > I'm > > looking at being able to create a kind of Virtual system to allow users to > > access/log into a couple of boxes, to run smoe apps. If I could more or less > > create a basic environment where they could login, run the apps, and then > > get out, i wouldn't have to worry about them screwing up the system... > > > > Thoughts/Comments... > > Linux is designed to be multi-user. Normal permissions are good > enough to keep non-root users from screwing up the system. You > should only need to bother with virtualization if you need > different OS versions or want to give root permission to others. Or you want to compartmentalize (is that a word?) the services running on a server so that if one crashes or is otherwise compromised, the other don't go with it. Paul.
