| From: | Johann Spies <jspies(at)sun(dot)ac(dot)za> |
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| To: | pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL and virtualization |
| Date: | 2007-08-27 09:14:03 |
| Message-ID: | 20070827091403.GA28060@sun.ac.za |
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On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 07:28:43AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
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> Arnau wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'd like to do some tests with replication, high availability, ...
> > with PostgreSQL. The problem I have is I don't have enough hardware to
> > do such tests, so I'd like to use virtualization. I'd like to do it
> > using linux. Nowadays there several products to do it Xen, Qemu, VMware,
> > ... and I don't have any experience with any of them. Anybody has tried
> > anything like this?
>
> Vmware server is free (as in beer) as it by far the easiest to get
> running. However, it will also be slower than Xen. If you are just
> testing, use VMWare.
You can also look at VirtualBox (www.virtualbox.org) I my experience
it is as easy as VMWare and faster.
Regards
Johann
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