On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 12:23:12AM +0000, elephant wrote:
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 07:14:57PM +0000, Cian Brennan wrote:
B:What VM software should we be using? This is something where none of the current admins know very much at all, so we're fairly open to any crazy suggestions. I'm kind of leaning towards qemu currently, but that's with very little experience.
VM Ware ESX server is supposedly good for virtualisation. I touched on it for a while back in net communications, however, no idea what kind of load it would handle, nor the pricetag. Still something you might want to look into?
We've talked about VMware before, and it's definatly something that needs to be considered, but we're not going to get any more money for this project this year, so free options would be preferable. http://store.vmware.com/store/vmware/DisplayProductDetailsPage/ProductID.835... ... it's not cheap ;) a. -- Andrew Harford System Administrator, DCU Networking Society Equipment Officer, Societies & Publications Committee Ultimately, we're all dead men. Sadly, we cannot choose how, but what we can decide is how we meet that end, in order that we are remembered as men. --Proximo (Gladiator)