ESXi (free, runs as what's know as 'HyperVisor' - this will get you used to running VMWare products, but you have no Host OS to play with... and hardware support is limited.)<br><br>If you are more brave, there is VMWare Virtual Server 2.0 - Runs directly on Fedora 9 for me, and many others (SUSE) - Install this and a PAE Kernel, and you can run a pretty mean server.<br>
<br>Most ISP's and Hosting Companies use Xen Virtualization for Linux - which is good to know, for clustered apache, mysql/pgsql installs.<br><br>Windows was offering their Virtual Server 2008 for free, and they have some very interesting emerging technologies... although you have to run everything on a Microsoft platform so they still got ya for the host license.<br>
<br>Good Luck!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Adam M. Erickson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adam@openfad.com">adam@openfad.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I have been running Virtual Box from Sun on Ubuntu for a few years now<br>
because it is easy for me to back up and run the virtual disk on any<br>
other Linux install.<br>
<br>
Is there anything else that runs on Linux for ***free*** that could<br>
also be run from Linux that would help me advance my education and<br>
qualify me for a better job position someday? (getting laid off for a<br>
few weeks so I'll have a lot of time on my hands to work on this.)<br>
<br>
Free being the key word. I have search some of the archives since I<br>
joined the GRLUG mailing list but most virtual discussions discussed<br>
products but not price.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>
Adam M. Erickson<br>
<a href="mailto:ae@openfad.com">ae@openfad.com</a><br>
"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before<br>
breakfast." - Lewis Carroll<br>
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