[olug] Virtual Instance of Linux

Jay Swackhamer Jay at RebootTheUser.com
Wed Nov 19 20:33:39 UTC 2003


Do they have to be separated?

The simple way to go would be to just add the disk to the other system and
have it do dual-duty.

If you'd like to keep them separated, then you could use
plex86 or alternatively bochs, vmware or (hercules running linux for S390)

> 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.
>
> Eric Penne
>
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