Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 06:40:24PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>
>>Rik van Riel wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Well, as the OpenVZ folks announced their release on LKML
>>>>I just decided to do similar for the Linux-VServer release,
>>>>so please let me know if that is not considered appropriate.
>>>
>>>Since there is a legitimate (and very popular) use case for
>>>virtuozzo / vserver functionality, I think it is a good
>>>thing to get all the code out in the open.
>>>
>>>I really hope we will get something like BSD jail functionality
>>>in the Linux kernel. It makes perfect sense for hosting
>>>environments.
>>>
>>
>>Like many needs there are lots of solutions, none of which are perfect,
>>or at least without problems the competition says are important ;-) This
>>is one more thing to study, but it seems as though there is not an
>>overview of the various solutions for easy comparison.
>>
>>This list is probably incomplete:
>> linuxjail - BSD jail is the goal
>> VMware - I use this for BSD machines
>> xen - the last I looked ran Linux, not Windows or BSD unpatched
>> UML - run Linux nicely
>> VServer - news to me
>
>
> free: commercial:
>
> Virtual Machine (Emulators/Simulators):
> (allows for unmodified guest systems)
>
> - Bochs - VMware
> - QEMU - SoftPC
> - Hercules - VirtualPC
> - GXemul
> - UAE
>
> Para Virtualization (Hypervisor)
> (requires modified guest kernels, without HW support)
>
> - IBM Hypervisor - VMware ESX
> - Xen - TRANGO
> - UML
>
> Kernel Isolation (Partitioning)
> (does not support guest kernels at all)
>
> - Linux-VServer - Virtuozzo
> - FreeVPS
> - OpenVZ
> - linuxjails
>
> best,
> Herbert
>
> PS: please add stuff where appropriate ...
> (not considered to be a complete list)
wikipedia has some interesting articles on this topic :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtualization
and more _stuff_ available here to complete Herbert list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_virtual_machines
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