Re: [mh] VMWare Server now Free

[Kirk B. <ki...@ka...>]

On Sun, 19 Feb 2006, H Plato wrote:

> For those that may be interested (and haven't heard already) VMware recently
> announced that they are offering their server product (previous GSX Server)
> free. A free registration gets you license keys for the Windows and Linux
> versions.

In my experience, VMware ESX causes a 50% to 90% performance penalty,
not sure about GSX.  VMware is very useful, just be careful not to run
anything you need good performance out of on it.

I hear good things about Xen on Linux, haven't tried it yet, but it is
supposedly much more efficient.

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