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On 08.07.2010, at 03:04, Olivier Nicole wrote:
> That's the idea: bare metal and free, proxmox has something based
> on... I don't remember. I opted for vmware becuase it seems to be more
> wide spread.

Yes, that's what I think, too.

> You will have to make your fingers dirty, because once you are
> installing any OS on a virtual machine, it is as dirty as installing
> on a bare hardware: you need to learn how to install, tune and secure
> that new OS...
>=20
> Good luck,

Right.

It's rather the comfort that I can have the right for every case (i. e. =
Oracle, Interbase) without asking for budget for a physical machine and =
having to take care of one more physical machine.

Thank you for your thoughts,
Iv=