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Subject: Re: Hypervisor ( was Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ? )
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> Yes, virtualbox is not that bad. However, to get some really nice
> features, you need the non-free version. Also, we can use citrix's
> xenserver's management tool to manage non-citrix xen clusters, because
> the API is same. With that we get a management tool for our clusters,
> which is really nice.

OK, makes sennse.

> Also I didn't know that virtualbox is capable of building clusters of
> nodes and bouncing VMs among nodes to balance load, and capable of
> doing such things, i might be lacking a bit here, sorry.

I belive if you have an iscsi storage backend for a runnign node it
can be moved transparently to another physsical hardware node
without stopping running, but I havent tried it myself I ahve to admit.

cheers,

-pete.