Hi Rich,
Yes, I think virtualisation would come in under fedora mini or at
least have a lot of over lap in making a small distro. There's
certainly a lot of cross over in various areas (and in server related
things in general)
I'll just note these two partially related points:
Debian can install and boot in 32 MB of RAM. This is very useful for
virtualization, since the number of virtual machines you can run is
often a simple function:
total_VMs = total_RAM / RAM_required_by_each_VM
The libguestfs appliance needs to boot up in 5 seconds, and consume
the minimum amount of disk and memory possible. (Currently it boots
in 12 seconds, consumes 70 MB of disk, and up to 500 MB of RAM).
Very interesting stats.
Cheers,
Peter