[Newserver] so far...

[Sean Conner]

It was thus said that the Great Jules Richardson once stated:
> 
> >While VMware/Xen seems quite interesting, I'm not sure it worth the 
> >hardware to make it "sing" in this application as 99.9% of the time, 
> >there will only be one OS running.
> 
> I admit to only skimming the messages here from the last week, but I'm not 
> sure what you'd gain by running a guest OS on an already-stable platform 
> that was perfectly capable of running the mailing list software? Just 
> sounds like more complexity and extra stuff to go wrong.

  We're using the technology at work and I like it.  We have a rather base
OS install for the physical server and run up to a dozen or so "virtual
servers" on said system.  It's nice becauase each "virtual server" can have
its own OS install and it's easy to move them from server to server if need
be (in fact, my company workstation and personal webserver are virtual
servers).  You can also increase the disk space or memory as needed per
virtual server.

  -spc (I tend to like virtual servers)