I have played around with vmware as a virtualization service both on my desktop and laptop and have recommended it to others to use on their systems. I still think its a great piece of software and I'm sure that if one wanted to get their enterprise solutions there would be a real reason to use vmware. However, today I quickly and easily setup Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM) for linux which will offer some speed increases and some nice tools to manage the new virtual machines running on my new server.

I will soon be phasing out two servers (mr burns and lenny and hosting them (bobo and karl) virtually on this new box to cut some costs of my own while still offering my clients great uptime. My next step will be to research backup solutions so ensure that I can move a virtual machine from host to host or get last weeks machine or anything.