[TriLUG] Xen applications

Reginald Reed reginald.reed at gmail.com
Thu Apr 20 01:53:30 EDT 2006


On 4/20/06, Brian McCullough <bdmc at bdmcc-us.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 03:37:10PM -0400, Michael Hrivnak wrote:
> > I'm not clear on what you want to do with the first machine.  Assuming
> you're
> > using it to test-drive a number of distros, no, you probably don't have
> much
> > to gain from using Xen.
>
> It is a development-oriented machine, where certain projects require
> different environments.  In general, I reboot that box much more often
> than any Linux box that I have ever had.  I was wondering whether that
> machine might possibly be able to run all of those operating systems
> simultaneously.  However, according to my reading so far, I would need
> to recompile each of them for Xen use.


So why don't you use VMware Server or QEMU?  No recompiles and you could run
all those distros at the same time if you wanted.  Both are free to use and
QEMU is pretty much open (the acceleration module for x86 code is not - so
if you want to run fast, go VMware Server).

--Reggie



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