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On Oct 13, 2007, at 00:53 , Julian Elischer wrote:
> Generally, you can run several hundred (or more) virtual jail/ 
> vimage style machines. xen/vmware uses so much more resources that  
> you are usually limited to
> so number like 20. it is possible in a virtual networking setup to  
> have a single process
> spanning several virtual environments (for example one process with  
> a socket in each of the child universes).
> It is a valid question, but there is I think a place for both types of
> partitioning.

I'll take anything that can *reliably* allow me to run RELENG_5,6,7  
(and possibly HEAD) on the same (reasonably) beefy machine.  Bonus  
points for being able to do /i386 on /amd64 (or vice versa).

Right now, the only solution that comes even close to doing this is  
vmware on Windows XP.  Bleh.

-aDe