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<br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;"><hr><b>From:</b> George Rosamond [mailto:george@ceetonetechnology.com]<br><b>To:</b> NYCBUG [mailto:talk@lists.nycbug.org]<br><b>Sent:</b> Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:51:59 -0400<br><b>Subject:</b> [nycbug-talk] jail article<br><br>I know this was posted to /., but it's well worth posting and <br>
discussing, IMHO.<br>
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<a href="http://www.playingwithwire.com/2009/06/virtual-failure-yippiemove-switches-from-vmware-to-freebsd-jails/" target="_blank">http://www.playingwithwire.com/2009/06/virtual-failure-yippiemove-switches-from-vmware-to-freebsd-jails/</a><br>
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And here's the tinyurl for those who prefer :)<br>
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<a href="http://tinyurl.com/msvljj" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/msvljj</a><br>
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(sorry, had to drop that joke in there)<br>
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The conclusion to draw about this article is simple to me: there's no <br>
perfect solution to virtualization. . . it depends on your needs.<br>
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FreeBSD jails are great in terms of system demands. . . . Drop 20 jails <br>
on a P4 and 4 gig of RAM, each with their own IP, and no problems.<br>
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Can you imagine doing that with other virtualization software like <br>
VMWare, with 20 instances, on those specs?<br>
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Jails are the right solution for certain scenarios. . . and I think the <br>
virtualization debates and discussions tend to compare apples to, er, <br>
live chickens.<br>
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g</blockquote><br>The technical issues aside I think overall the sentiment is good, as it does advocate FreeBSD over other potential contenders. <br><br>I'm still flummoxed about the sqlite3 over NFS. I would just never consider that as an option but that's me.<br><br>Regards,<br>Mikel King<br>CEO, Olivent Technologies<br>Senior Editor, Daemon News<br>Columnist, BSD Magazine<br>6 Alpine Court,<br>Medford, NY 11763<br>o: 631.627.3055<br>skype:mikel.king<br><br>http://mikelking.com<br>http://twitter.com/mikelking<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;"><span></span><br>
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