VMware Server for Linux for Free
I will turn down free beer software in favor of freedom software when both exist. If you don't know the difference, that's OK. You cannot see the source code for the video drivers from ATI, for example. You can get them for free but they are not freed. The same with Adobe Acrobat Reader and plugins for the Firefox web browser.
When it comes to virtual machines for Linux I reach a dilemma. Luckily, I have the free VM for Linux, Xen, running a DNS server on my web site. I say luckily since many people of whom I know cannot get Xen to run.
I also have VMware running on another host on our network for testing purposes. Though I don't have access to the source code for VMware, I have decided to drink a six pack and admit this bud's for me.
In my opinion, Xen's a pain and needs what many free software applications need: a frontend. While our friends at Novell have put some serious time into making Yast something of a frontend for Xen, I can't get it to work. But then, I have many other complaints about SUSE as well, so I have come to expect poor engineering decisions at that company.
VMware has a mature, well-engineered and versatile console for its server product. I hesitated to try it until contracted to do a comparison for a book. Now, I'm sold, even though I got VMware server for free.
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