[nycbug-talk] Re: FreeBSD or DragonFly

[Johnny Lam]

George R. wrote:
> Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Dan Casey wrote:
>>
>>> What are some reasons that one might use DragonFly instead of Free?  Im
>>> doing virtual hosting, so creating virtual environments/jails is going
>>> to be a big consideration.  Or I may even go w/ openbsd... who knows...

 From what I recall, "jails" are a FreeBSD-only concept, and the only 
other alternative for that type of virtual environment is NetBSD/Xen 
(assuming you wanted to stay with a *BSD solution).

>> I hear that quite a number of people make good results with NetBSD+Xen 
>> for such things (even if people on this list will shout at me again 
>> for mentioning this :).
>>
> 
> "should at you" about using netbsd+xen?  No no no...
> 
> Lots of people use virtual domains, and many of us are using jails. . .
> 
> I'm personally happy with the setup for now, but I think the truth is 
> that Xen has the potential to really make us all rethink not just our 
> technology tools, but more . . .
> 
> Particularly in the arena of clusters/distributed virtualization, Xen 
> really needs to be looked at.. .
> 
> And that's why Johnny Lam is doing that meeting for us in Feb :-)
> 
> I know he's on this list.. .

Wow, I sure hope my talk lives up to the hype now :)

	Cheers,

	-- Johnny Lam <jlam at pkgsrc.org>