[Novalug] Virtual opinions wanted

[John Franklin]

Overkill is getting a Dell poweredge server to be a big VM server.

Vmware is happily supported by both vmware's tools and the open- 
vmtools package.  I find vmware has a lower idle CPU cost than  
VirtualBox (at least on a mac desktop).

Any vm solution will work fine as an ubuntu sandbox.  And a vm sandbox  
is a great idea for this kind of project.

jf

On Dec 12, 2010, at 17:34, Nick Danger <nick at hackermonkey.com> wrote:

>
> I have a happily running Ubuntu server. It does NFS, some web, Samba  
> and
> a few other internal type tasks. I'd like to start messing around with
> Asterisk. I'd rather not install it directly as I probably want to try
> different distros / configs and I really don't want to mess with the
> 'core' function of my server at the moment. In fact I just recently
> reinstalled it (a few months back) because of a botched install of a
> bunch of services, so I'd rather separate the base function (now  
> working
> great) from my messing around.
>
> So, which VZ tech should I work with? VirtualBox? VMWare? OpenVZ? I've
> worked with the first two, and I know they are easy enough but not  
> sure
> if its overkill if all I want is a sandbox for a separate apache,  
> mysql
> and asterisk binaries.
>
> Looking for thoughts and suggestions and things you have tried.
>
> Thanks
> Nick
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