Run mulitable Linux Desktops simultaneously using different ethernet ports

[just_me_too]

I have Ubuntu v9.10 installed on a quad PC and I would like to run mulitable desktops at the same time with each one connected to their own ethernet port. Can this be done? Has anybody done this before?

Thanks

[D-cat]

If you have a processor with HVM or VT support, you can use Xen Hypervisor (comes with SuSE, but you can add it to others) to accomplish this task. The basic idea is that you have four virtual machines running each with their own desktop and they will want to share the hardware, so you'd have to do some manual configuration to get each distro to only use it's own designated net card. HVM allows hardware to be shared between different VM's, so what you describe should be possible.

Lacking hardware support, you can use some other VM software (Sun Virtualbox is my favorite) to still have several different distros running simultaniously, though I don't know how you'd get each to use a different net card (if that's even possible).