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Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 08:37:36 -0500 From: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] New Install Planning To: xen-users <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Message-ID: <4EB7DF20.3020506@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed ray@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > That sounds great. I am not very familiar with debian. Can you > suggest 'whatever you need ssh etc'. > ray > > Not to be negative or anything, but if you're "not very familiar with debian" - you're just asking for a world of hurt in trying to get Xen working. I've found Xen to be fairly touchy to get up and running, and there are quite a few subtle interactions with the host operating system (e.g., getting grub startup configurations and kernel variables set up right). With that said: - for Xen on Debian, be sure to look at http://wiki.debian.org/Xen - you might consider installing XCP (the bare metal hypervisor version of Xen) - not sure if it would run on your hardware or not (note: haven't tried it myself) - if you're more familiar with another Linux distribution, you might want to go with its Xen package (OpenSuse, in particular comes with Xen pre-configured) - depending on what you're actually trying to accomplish, you might consider another virtualization environment (e.g., KVM under CentOS, VirtualBox, VMware, Parallels) For a production server environment, Xen is the best of the bunch (IMHO), but if you're just trying to maintain a few separate images on a desktop system, it might be more trouble than it's worth. FYI: For ANY virtualization, make sure you have a fast CPU (multiple cores are even better), lots of memory, and lots of extra disk space. And make an informed choice between hardware-assist vs. paravirtualization. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In<fnord> practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra ------------------------------ Miles, Thank you very much for all the info. I have read up on XCP now and I see several places where it is said to make sure your hardware supports virtualization or Windows OS may not work correctly. I have not found anything that says what hardware supports virtualiation as neccessary for XCP. I plan to buy hardware to match. I am expecting an AMD 4 core and an ASUS motherboard. My local supplier says that today, all motherboards support virtualization. I have contacted Asus and Gigabyte and have not gotten a clear answer. My goeal is to multiple video, NIC ports, and SATA ports all isolatable. I do not intend to address paravirtualization. I wonder about usig SSD for dom0 and possibly another SSD for one guest. ray _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
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