[mythtv-users] OT: Virtualization

[jedi]

On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 04:29:17PM -0400, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 7/4/2013 3:42 PM, Fredrik Hallgårde wrote:
> >But also as a means to quickly consolidate different systems where the
> >time to sort out if the libraries required by one application can be
> >used with the same kernel as other libraries required by another
> >application by far would outweigh the cost of wasted hardware resources.
> 
> I've been running jails on my FreeBSD box that are several years
> old, with no sign of trouble, but then FreeBSD has guarantees of
> binary compatibility from one major kernel revision to the next.

    Shared libraries versus the version of the kernel are really the
tip of the iceberg here. Sorting out separate libraries for different
apps, even assuming that's a problem, is not that big of a deal with 
Unix. The system is flexible and transparent and that makes things a
whole lot simpler.