There's always user-mode-linux, also. While it's not PURE virtualization, it only abstracts hardware, and everything else is the same as a real linux box. I used to use it quite a bit at my last job. On Dec 7, 2007 11:50 AM, Technomage-hawke wrote: > 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 > -- Thanks, Dan Lund "This day we rescue a world from mysticism and tyranny, and usher in a future brighter than anything we can imagine." --------------------------------------------------- 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