[ale] VMPlayer 3 vs VirtualBox

[Derek Atkins]

Wolf Halton <wolf.halton at gmail.com> writes:

> Look into ProxMox - it uses KVM and has a good web interface.  I am using it
> on a test server set-up, and I am prepared to open it up to our internal
> software developers for test machines.  It takes regular ISO installs and
> OpenVZ containers.  This is good because OpenVZ containers use almost no
> resources just to run.  VMs reserve a lot of resources, but OpenVZ containers
> reserve no resources.  For capacity-planning purposes, you can probably
> overbook resources by 10x when using OpenVZ-style virtual machines.  A caveat:
> my test server-farm are low-traffic, low transaction level at the moment.

Ah, sorry, my other requirement is that it cannot be a bare-metal
solution because I need to run other services off the VM Host.  AFAICT
ProxMox VE is a bare metal solution.  (I'll note that this is another
reason why I'm not looking into ESXi).

-derek

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