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> What virtulization system to use? Personnally I use ESXi from vmware

This was a great tip, thank you. I wasn't aware that ESXi is a bare =
metal and free.

> What OS to use instead of FreeBSD? It depends on what is recommended
> for your application, what resources you have available around you,
> etc. For a similar problem I choosed Ubuntu because Ubuntu was well
> supported by the application and some colleagues had a decent
> knwoledge of ubuntu.

I am not fanatic about FreeBSD, but I feel very comfortable with it and =
I resist change. However your ESXi tip would allow me to run ESXi on =
bare metal and virtualize simple installations of the "unpleasant" =
legacy OSes without making my fingers too dirty.

Thank you very much,
Iv=