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Physical to Virtual Server on a Budget

By Donovan Niesen on December 22, 2008 5:59 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
Weeks back, I had assembled a fairly impressive server for hosting virtual machines.  It's intended purpose was to consolidate a number of aging servers.  Today, I will be describing my physical machine to virtual machine adventures.

The Machines

I have created numerous virtual machines from scratch.  I have even converted a fair share of Windows boxes to virtual machines with varying success.  I knew this project was interesting as these were the servers I needed to move:

  • A Windows XP "server" handling some proprietary data collection applications
  • A Debian 3 server running web applications and serving hold music
  • Another Debian 3 server acting as a mail server among many other odd maintenance scripts
  • A FreeBSD 6 server hosting web applications
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