[olug] Virtual Instance of Linux

[Daniel Linder]

Eric Penne wrote:
> I was curious.  I'm having trouble with my fileserver 166MHz Pentium with
> 32MB of ram.  Next to it sits a Via 833MHz with 256MB of ram as a
> webserver.  Is it possible to run 2 instances of Linux on one processor so
> that 1 acts as a fileserver and 1 acts as a webserver and they just share
> resources?  I know IBM and others have done this but I didn't know if the
> average joe like me could do it.

Well, you can check out VMWare -- EXCELLENT product by the way! -- or you
can try the user-mode linux version.  I haven't used it but hear it is
good for virtual systems...

Dan