Virtualizing project

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Virtualizing of operating systems can be categorized in two principles.

  1. Virtualizing software runs on Host OS
  2. Virtualizing software runs on Bare Metal

Within each category the Virtualizing software can be grouped in Open Source or proprietary

Evaluated software

Virtualization software
Name Host OS License Cost
XEN NONE GNU GPL Free
VMware esxi NONE proprietary Free[1]
SUN Virtualbox Linux, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp, Windows XP/Vista/7, Solaris, FreeBSD GNU GPL Free
VMware Server Windows, Linux proprietary Free[2]


References

  1. Management software for clusters not free [1]
  2. Management software for clusters not free [2]