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 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 > > -- > > # https://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.CiscoLearning.org/ > > # wouldn't that be "shopping is hard, let's do math"? > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss