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If you're OK with the students having all the same version of Linux you could use OpenVZ. OpenVZ is a container technology which allows you to have separate machines without so much of the overhead of the virtualization approach used by KVM.

I've used it extensively and it's terrific for loading a lot of machines on a single box. I currently have 12+ machines running on a single AMD box with 3 cores and 4GB of RAM. These systems are headless, so there are no GUI's running, but it's excellent for setting up systems where users can learn about taking care of a system (each VM has it's own packages - I use CentOS) and for doing Unix shell learning.

If you're OK with the students having all the same version of Linux you could use OpenVZ. OpenVZ is a container technology which allows you to have separate machines without so much of the overhead of the virtualization approach used by KVM.

I've used it extensively and it's terrific for loading a lot of machines on a single box. I currently have 12+ machines running on a single AMD box with 3 cores and 4GB of RAM. These systems are headless, so there are no GUI's running, but it's excellent for setting up systems where users can learn about taking care of a system (each VM has it's own packages - I use CentOS) and for doing Unix shell learning.

If you're OK with the students having all the same version of Linux you could use OpenVZ. OpenVZ is a container technology which allows you to have separate machines without so much of the overhead of the virtualization approach used by KVM.

I've used it extensively and it's terrific for loading a lot of machines on a single box. I currently have 12+ machines running on a single AMD box with 3 cores and 4GB of RAM. These systems are headless, so there are no GUI's running, but it's excellent for setting up systems where users can learn about taking care of a system (each VM has it's own packages - I use CentOS) and for doing Unix shell learning.

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slm ♦
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  • 897

If you're OK with the students having all the same version of Linux you could use OpenVZ. OpenVZ is a container technology which allows you to have separate machines without so much of the overhead of the virtualization approach used by KVM.

I've used it extensively and it's terrific for loading a lot of machines on a single box. I currently have 12+ machines running on a single AMD box with 3 cores and 4GB of RAM. These systems are headless, so there are no GUI's running, but it's excellent for setting up systems where users can learn about taking care of a system (each VM has it's own packages - I use CentOS) and for doing Unix shell learning.