Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 22nd Aug 2006 21:51 UTC
Red Hat and Novell, the two top Linux sellers, have only just begun building Xen virtualization software into their products. But they're already planning to add a higher-level option. Xen is a 'hypervisor' that lets a single computer run several operating systems simultaneously, using an idea called 'virtualization'. This enables companies to use a single server more efficiently - something that could save them money. Now 'containers', a higher-level virtualization approach that makes a single operating system look like many, is also getting traction.
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It's important to remember that Solaris Containers (Zones) are not the same thing as jails. A good post comparing some of the different solutions available for this was posted here a while ago:
http://uadmin.blogspot.com/2005/06/zones-vs-jail.html
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Yes, the containers the article is refering to is equivalent of a Solaris Zone. Solaris Containers not only virtualize, but allow an administrator to finely control resources used by an application within the container or containers.
See this for more information:
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/ds/utilization.jsp#1
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