[ale] Debian virtualization suggestions

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:29:17 -0400
"Michael H. Warfield" <mhw at WittsEnd.com> wrote:
>
>	If you are adventuresome, the 2.6.29 kernel has pretty much all
> of lxc (Linux Containers) which does pretty much the same thing
> as OpenVZ or Linux-vservers.  These are all the equivalent of
> the *BSD jails/gaols or Solaris containers or zones.
>
> 	My personal preference is for OpenVZ (I have over 3 dozen
> virtual machines running on a single system and the load average
> rarely goes above .1) but Linux-vservers works just as well (a little
> different paradigm) and lxc is going to be the mainstream inheritor
> of both those projects a little ways down the road.
>

My experiences with OpenVZ and it's commercial counterpart have been
less than happy, though my guess is that the provider I've went through
in the past that used them to sell VPS systems probably just didn't
know how to manage it correctly.

I've long liked the BSD jail system (at least as it is in FreeBSD).
I'll have to check out the containers you mentioned; if they behave
like BSD jails do and come with the system, that's something I'd be
interested in using, since I can't run FreeBSD on my current server and
haven't set up my box the way I'd really want it running...

	--- Mike

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