[Novalug] Virtual opinions wanted

[American Dave Kline]

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 05:34:14PM -0500, Nick Danger wrote:

> So, which VZ tech should I work with? VirtualBox? VMWare? OpenVZ? I've 
> worked with the first two, and I know they are easy enough but not sure 
> if its overkill if all I want is a sandbox for a separate apache, mysql 
> and asterisk binaries.

For production virtualization, I'm a big proponent of
libvirt.  It's a snap to set up.  You mentioned Ubuntu, which packages
libvirt.  This would allow you to use good virtualization technology and
run as many unmodified distros/operating systems as you'd like.

libvirt is free/open source software, and happens to be free of charge.
-A. Dave