"There are major, usually expensive, commercial virtualization programs, there are major open-source virtualization programs that require expertise to set up properly, and now, LinMin, a new Linux system management company, says there's another alternative: LBMP (LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning).
"According to the company, LBMP can be used to remotely provision-that is, natively install and configure Linux and customer-specified applications-and image systems. These images can then be used for rollbacks or to clone servers, PCs, appliances and virtual machines for mass deployment..."