Physical Server to VMWare Server

[Lev Lafayette]

On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 19:38 -0500, chrisl at xp.etowns.net wrote:
> I would like to move my e-mail server to a virtual server. VMware has a Physical to Virtual utility to convert Windows servers to a virtual server. I would imaging linux to be a lot easier.

Have you considered Xen as an alternative? The performance hit,
especially on webservices, file system operatuins and database
operations is "not insignificant" in VMware especially in comparison to
VMware.

(see the paper, "Xen and the Art of Virtualization",
www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/papers/2003-xensosp.pdf)

Just sayin', and don't particularly want to get into a religious war
over it either...

All the best,

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Lev Lafayette 
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