I'm planning to use Xen to virtualize my new desktop at
home- a bit of an experiment for me. Should I a) use my
primary working linux distro that I use day-to-day as dom0 so
I have easy access to peripherals and control over things, or
b) use a minimal headless install for dom0 and make my
day-to-day desktop a domU so I minimze risk of breaking the
entire Xen environment and just passthrough the peripherals?
Anyone have any experience or advice?
Thanks
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Detailed background for anyone interested:
Have a new 8 core machine I'm setting up.
Consider the following VMs to isolate some tasks so
services are somewhat isolated and dont break each other:
- Linux Desktop
- Win7 Desktop
- Media server to stream music and video collection
(considering Plex)
- File and print server (Samba, CUPS, NFS, etc)
- Backup server to pull/sync data with other machines in
house (considering Backup PC)
and probably a handful of distros Im trying out to test
things, probably a LAMP stack for some development
This would be the central computer in the house thats
always on. Home network consists of this machine, ipad, Asus
tablet, iphone, android phone, a smart BlueRay, a windows
laptop and a few linux laptops. If the media streaming works
out then will probably add a Roku or something similar.
