--- ADNET Ghislain <gadnet@aqueos.com> wrote:
>
> > 1)
> > What will be the advantage in running Vserver compared to
> > Xen/VirtualBox/VMWare/etc. IIRC on FAQ it mentiones Vserver taking
> > only Windows Guest. The others can take Windows guest additional
> to
> > Linux/Unix guests.
> >
> while i am far from a kernel guru i can tell you that light
> virtualisation like linux vserver has a very small footprint and so
> the
> vservers run as fast as on the real hardware. The cost is some % of
> performances and as it use the real kernel network and disk drivers,
> access are not slowed down. This has major advantage in the
> performance
> part at least. You could read :
>
> http://linux-vserver.org/Paper
>
> to have a better insight on how this work :)
>
>
> --
> Cordialement,
> Ghislain
Thanks for your advice and URL
B.R.
Stephen L
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Received on Tue Apr 15 15:19:02 2008