More reasons to play around with both VMware ESXi (free) [other than it looks suite on your resume] AND XEN (for systems you can afford to keep):

http://www.linux.com/feature/59397  Setting Up VMWare Player on Linux

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/  VMWare Images 


http://www.seepurity.com/?page_id=28  Open Source Security Tools

http://vmplanet.net/  Including the Fedora 10 Preview & Ubuntu 8.10

http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/vmware/  Various Useful Images

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/3779546/Mac_OS_X_x86_VMWare_Image  Mac of Course

http://www.haiku-os.org/downloads  Haiku-Os

http://newappsdba.blogspot.com/2008/04/part-1-setting-up-vmware-and-linux-for.html  Oracle RAC 10g Installation (soo fun!)

http://www.mininova.org/tor/367722  Endian Firewall TurnKey Distro


https://legroom.net/2007/08/05/how-mount-vmware-disk-images-under-linux  Mount VMWare in Linux to Add Remove Files [accept the cert - it's safe!]



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> Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:16:42 -0800
> From: randymelder@gmail.com
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: ESXi vs. XEN
> 
> > Xen requires hardware integration on both the host and the client.  VMWare does not
> > require that.
> 
> Actually, Xen and VMWare can both do full virtualization (hypervisor
> unaware guests). Xen also does paravirtualization (hypervisor aware
> guests). VMWare has more commercial tools, but they all run on windows
> as of today. Xen has (imho) faster to implement tools, but they aren't
> as polished as VMWare.
> 
> I think that for the less linux saavy, VMWare is the way to get
> started. If you are well versed with making and restoring linux disk
> images and networking, then Xen is for you. They are both great, but
> require lots of R&D (tinkering) to get what you want.
> 
> Don't pay attention to marketing claims of performance or scalability.
> The truth is that if you have a high-resource/load host, it's going to
> be the same on a hypervisor. The way to virtualize is to combine many
> (5-15) low-load hosts onto one hypervisor host.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> ; ) .randy
> 
> 
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