Physical Server to VMWare Server

Thu Aug 2 13:50:54 UTC 2007

On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:00:38AM +1000, Lev Lafayette wrote:
> 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.

There's also UML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User-mode_Linux