And I forgot to mention UML. * Bart Trojanowski <bart-oclug [ at ] jukie [ dot ] net> [070409 09:05]: > - qemu does emulation of the CPU. > - qemu w/ kqemu does full virtualization. Guest OS is unmodified. > - Xen does para vitalization (and some full virtualization now). Guest OS > is aware that it's running under Xen. > - OpenVZ and Vserver do compartmentalization. There is only one kernel. > > The above list is sorted by increasing performance. UML will probably sit around kqemu. Probably just a bit faster then kqemu. > I have been running vserver for some time and I've been pretty happy > with it. I think next time I repave I might try UML. With hostfs you get low overhead IO. -Bart -- WebSig: http://www.jukie.net/~bart/sig/