Re: [Xen-users] Help for a confused newbie

["M. Khalid Khan" <mohammad.khan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Dan for your reply. Here are a few more questions / concerns:

> > proceed. I'd like set up a  couple logical volumes ( is LVM there on
> > the demo CD ) and install a couple  of different distros and run them
> The XenLinux kernel on the demo CD does indeed have LVM support, but if
> you're going to be installing things on disk anyway I suggest you
> install proper Xen rather than trying to run from the demo CD.
I'd definitely like to install dom0 on the disk but I don't want to install 
any bloated distibution that comes with everything under the sun and 
requires many GB of disk space, tons of memory and lots of cpu cycles. In my 
opinion dom0 should only have the things needed to run Xen. I tried 
Xenophilia but that's still a work in progress. Is there any other distro 
you can recomend for this purpose ?
> At the moment the only sensible place to run an X server is in dom0.
> However, the demo CD has guest domains start Xvnc, so a VNC client
> running on the X server in dom0 can show you the graphical output of
> each domU. This is a little fiddly to set up but might be useful
> depending on what you want to do.
You said "At the moment", does it mean there is a better solution under 
development ? Can you give some pointers to it? I browsed realvnc site to 
get an idea about it. From what I can gather it seems to be something to be 
able to view a desktop remotely on another machine but the documentation 
didn't say that you don't run X on the machine being accessed, may be I 
missed it. Anyway not running X on user domains will save some resources.
All I'm trying to do is to set up a development environment where I'll have 
a database server, an application/web server and a development machine. This 
last one has to have GUI the first two may not.
> Have fun experimenting with Xen.
I'm having fun and I sincerely appreciate all the work that you guys are 
putting into it.
Thanks
Khalid


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