[lug] Installation of multiple Linux Instances

[Ben Whaley]

What about Xen? Near-native performance, EXTREMELY stable in my experience.

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 1:43 PM, kevin kempter <kevin at kevinkempterllc.com>wrote:

> Performance is a issue
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> On Sep 19, 2008, at 1:23 PM, Michael Belanger wrote:
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>  Why not just use vmware?
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>> kevin kempter wrote:
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>>> Hi List;
>>> I have a new dev server. As an independent consultant I want to maximize
>>> it's use. Some of my clients use RedHat/CentOS 64 bit, others Redhat/CentOS
>>> 32bit, some are even using Fedora and Debian.
>>> Here's my thought:
>>> I'd like to install each OS/version into it's own space on the disk.  I'm
>>> thinking all I have to do is install one OS (say CentOS 64bit) and partition
>>> say 20% of the disk. Then once the install is done, boot into the latest
>>> fedora disk and do the same, etc.
>>> Is this correct ?
>>> Later I want to add a disk array and allocate a RAID mount point that can
>>> be mounted by any of the installed Linux'es when it's active.
>>> Is this do-able ? Easily ?
>>> Thanks in advance...
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