“SWsoft Virtuozzo for Windows is deadly simple to install and manage, with extended virtual servers’ centralized management features, and enhanced provisioning capabilities. Anyway you should consider that OS partitioning is different from virtualization. Virtuozzo is less flexible than any VMware or Microsoft virtualization software and you won’t be able to consolidate different platforms, or migrate some of them when the new Microsoft codename Longhorn Server will come.”
Its a nice article, and the OpenVZ material to which it links is also very interesting.
Is it right, this would be a sensible thing to use if you want to run a small internal web server, boa lets say, with a couple of kiosk stations accessing it at low volumes, and also have a couple more stations running as thin clients off the same machine?
You partition the machine into two servers, one of which runs the ltsp services, and the other, which is totally partitioned off, runs the web server.
An example might be where you want to have one machine in an organisation, have web access to some materials for the public, but also have administrative and accounting functions running on cheap old hardware off the same machine, but in a secure way. So the public stations would come into one partioned web server, and the admin stations would boot up using ltsp or similar from the other server?
It might get to be a fairly complex installation, but is this a reasonable use for the thing?