So, ok, the new semester started today. As always, I’m a bit lazy on the first day so I took the opportunity to work from home instead of going to school.

It turned out be a rather ok day when I finally got out of bed. I’ve made a quick front page and a suggestion for the content in my project report. As you can read on my “Why”-page, the goal is to virtualize computer labs for students to reduce both cost and administration and at the same time deliver a better service.

After a quick look around, I chose to focus on the following virtualization solutions in the next months:

• VMware ESX/ESX(i)/Server/VDI
• Microsoft Hyper-V
• Xen
• Sun Virtualbox/xVM/Solaris Containers
• VirtualIron
• Virtuozzo
• QEMU

Are there any other solutions I should look at? I know about the different IBM/HP solutions, but they requires special hardware which are pretty expensive.