Jan 23
I was pleased to come across a couple of posts on virtualisation recently.
Sometime in the next month I am planning on building a server to be a host for VMs, so these came at just the right time for me. I was planning on using VMware Server, which I have done a small amount of experimenting with, but Neville’s article about Xen makes we want to take that for a spin. I’ll also be taking a look at Parallels to see what their current offerings are like. Of course, there’s also Virtual PC and, possibly, rpath although that appears to have a different focus - I need to check it out further though…
January 23rd, 2007 at 11:23 am
rPath is more of a distro-builder. If you run into any challenges with VMware Server, make sure you drop by the VMTN Forums and they can probably help.
Happy virtualizing!
January 23rd, 2007 at 11:58 am
Thanks for the comment, John. rPath seemed like a distro-builder from a quick perusal of their site, but I included it anyway as I have seen it referenced alongside VM software.
And thanks for the link to those forums, I’ll have to check them out soon.
January 24th, 2007 at 6:15 am
In addition to building distros, rPath builds, and supplies tools for building, virtual appliances — preconfigured virtual machines.
January 24th, 2007 at 9:59 am
Thanks, Roger. It definitely looks like rPath is worth looking into.