IT-Director: Which is Better: A Partitioned OS or a Partitioned Machine?

“It has been reported that SWsoft is seeking to have OpenVZ, a
virtualization technology, integrated into the Linux kernel. In
addition, Red Hat has indicated that it would include the
virtualization technology into its free Linux distribution known as
Fedora. OpenVZ is an open-source underpinning to Virtuozzo, which
is sold by SWsoft. OpenVZ divides a single instance of Linux into
multiple virtual servers, conceptually similar to that of Solaris
10 containers, but with each operating as if it were a unique
server. This approach to virtualization differs from that of VMware
or other Hypervision-based approaches that create a virtual
instance of a server upon which multiple operating systems may
reside…”

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