Content Manager and VM

Scala tested the most important virtualization products, based on market share and within the limits of our resources, to the extent it makes business sense for us to do so.

From a practical viewpoint--this means: VMware Workstation, VMware Server, WMware ESX Server.

The current tested revisions are:

Workstation v.6.0.5; Server 1.0.7; ESX: 3.5u1.

The notes: Workstation and Server can work with USB-Dongles; ESX Requires a Dongle-less CM5 license.

Of the other Technologies: XEN, Parallels, Microsoft Hyper-V, U.S.W.

"XEN" is not technically interesting for us at this time--unless we have a business case to support Citrix Metaframe. The "Free XEN" variants are only interesting if we ever develop Linux-native CM5. [XEN buys nothing in a non-Citrix implementation for a Win32 native product]

"Parallels Desktop" is not yet interesting. Its Workstation without the maturity.

Hyper-V is only interesting because its Microsoft and its stock with Server 2008. It will have to be tested and supported. However, at this point is basically "IE 3.0 vs. FireFox 2.0.x", from a developmental maturity viewpoint.

The Parallels Virtuozzo Containers 4.0 product is technically very, very, very interesting! [esp. for Ad-Sense type products]

http://www.parallels.com/en/virtuozzo/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtuozzo