Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932284AbWC1OjJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:39:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932285AbWC1OjJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:39:09 -0500 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([64.65.253.246]:9377 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932284AbWC1OjH (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:39:07 -0500 Message-ID: <44294B33.3040507@tmr.com> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:41:55 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen Organization: TMR Associates Inc, Schenectady NY User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050729 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kirill Korotaev CC: Dave Hansen , "Eric W. Biederman" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, herbert@13thfloor.at, devel@openvz.org, serue@us.ibm.com, akpm@osdl.org, sam@vilain.net, Alexey Kuznetsov , Pavel Emelianov , Stanislav Protassov Subject: Re: [RFC] Virtualization steps References: <44242A3F.1010307@sw.ru> <44242D4D.40702@yahoo.com.au> <1143228339.19152.91.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4428BB5C.3060803@tmr.com> <4428FB2B.8070805@sw.ru> In-Reply-To: <4428FB2B.8070805@sw.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1273 Lines: 29 Kirill Korotaev wrote: >> Frankly I don't see running 100 VMs as a realistic goal, being able >> to run Linux, Windows, Solaris and BEOS unmodified in 4-5 VMs would >> be far more useful. > > It is more than realistic. Hosting companies run more than 100 VPSs in > reality. There are also other usefull scenarios. For example, I know > the universities which run VPS for every faculty web site, for every > department, mail server and so on. Why do you think they want to run > only 5VMs on one machine? Much more! I made no commont on what "they" might want, I want to make the rack of underutilized Windows, BSD and Solaris servers go away. An approach which doesn't support unmodified guest installs doesn't solve any of my current problems. I didn't say it was in any way not useful, just not of interest to me. What needs I have for Linux environments are answered by jails and/or UML. -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/