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Date: 03/18/99
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus <email protected>>
>One cool thing I have just started doing is to install many different
>distributions in something called virtual machines. Having to wipe out
>your machine each time you want to try a distribution is a pain. And
>especially for developers trying to make sure that their stuff builds and
>installs cleanly on as many systems as possible.
>
>So, I am using vmware (www.vmware.com) to set up small virtual Intel
>machines.
This looks VERY interesting. I can hardly wait to try it.
>It would be nice if some ISP's out there had a look at perhaps providing
>virtual server hosting this way. Provide customers with their own
>complete virtual machines. That way the customer could have full root
>access, recompile his kernel and basically do whatever he wanted and the
>ISP could still have multiple clients per machine and each client could
>run his own favourite (Intel-based) operating system. To illustrate this,
>feel free to:
>
> telnet gizmo.lerdorf.on.ca
>
> login: root
> password: hackme
>
>This is a small vm running Linux RedHat-5.1. I have only assigned it 20M
>of ram and my cpu load is hovering right around 0.02 with it running and
>someone logged into it, so I don't even notice it. It will stay up until
>someone wipes it out. Login and poke around.
>
>-Rasmus
>
I'm passing this along to the tech guy at my web host. He went to
LinuxWorld, so he probably saw it in action, but I don't know if it was
presented in this light or not (as ISP virtual hosting machines).
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