On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 22:19 +0100, Martyn Drake wrote:
So yes, playing about with Xen seems to be the next logical step. My provider has actually been very generous and given me better hardware to play with too - it's now a Pentium D 930 with 2Gb of RAM (rather than a Pentium D 820 with 1Gb RAM) so there's a bit more oomph (plus VT support now) to experiment.
VT support, drool....
To be honest as much as I love and rely on VMware I don't think this was an ideal application for it anyway.
VMware isn't actually that good at running many instances on a single host ( you are pushing your luck at more than 2-3 VM instances per CPU core, any more and the IO starts to really drag in my experience ) The ESX version is a lot better in this respect.
The basic VMware Server I believe also has a limitation whereby there is nothing stopping a careless or malicious user on one of the VM's from causing havoc for the others by doing something silly like forkbombing their machine.