hw and sw xen

[Technomage-hawke]

I have had experience with Xen.
you can create drive images (as files) and not worry too much about it.

only problem I see with Xen: upgrading the running kernel for its system is a 
night mare. vmware is far easier in that respect.

On Friday 07 December 2007 07:17, Shawn Badger wrote:
> I'm not sure about xen. I am using VmWare for the study group only because
> I have been using it forever. How I think fro something like what you are
> talking about something like virtual box may work. I find that seeing my
> VM's in a separate window instead of seamlessly with my main system gives
> me some insurance that I am not partitioning my host OS's drive or
> something like that.
> Just my two cents though!!
>
> On Dec 7, 2007 12:25 AM, der.hans <PLUGd at lufthans.com> wrote:
> > moin moin,
> >
> > a software install of xen requires special xen kernels.
> >
> > Do those same kernels work when running on a hardware install of xen?
> >
> > Do they run on hardware without being on a Dom0?
> >
> > In talking to one of my co-workers about the RHCE study classes we
> > thought of using xen for them in addition to how I plan on using it for
> > the classes I'm teaching at MCC.
> >
> > I want to know if we can make one image that would work for both software
> > and hardware xen installs.
> >
> > The idea is that we build images of specific configurations for using as
> > labs and we want to make them generally available.
> >
> > ciao,
> >
> > der.hans
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