virtualising an existing server using VirtualBox

[Jordon Bedwell]

On 12/12/2010 5:50 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> This is true fro kernel patches, but not fro new kernels. Both VMW
> and VB have to be rebuilt with new kernels.  I'm using the non-OSE
> version of VB, and its dkms integration also doesn't work, so no
> relief there, either.
>

Situational.  You do not always need to rebuild the kernel.
Actually, depending you don't even need to build a kernel.

> hardware issue altogether.  VMW and VB do this because they have their
> own vm base independent of the hardware.  If you're depending on
> hardware virtualization features, you're stuck on that hardware.
You're not stuck on that hardware at all.  You can move Linux installs 
quite easily, virtual or not.
Virtualisation actually makes it easy, because that is after all one of 
the key "upsides" to using that technology.