[Newserver] so far...

[Jules Richardson]

Sean Conner wrote:
> 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.

Oh same here - I've done some screwing around with VMWare recently and it's 
pretty darn impressive. However, I'm seeing a pretty big speed decrease 
(hardly surprising) and resource usage can be pretty high (also hardly 
surprising).

If FreeBSD supports the necessary software (i.e. the mailing list and web 
server) and the hardware (i.e. drivers) then I don't think there's any real 
benefit in virtualisation - I don't imagine there's a real need to run more 
than one OS on the hardware, and backing up the data and site config under 
FreeBSD (such that it could be easily restored to another machine) likely 
isn't a big issue.

My $0.02 anyway.

cheers

Jules