hw and sw xen

[Dan Lund]

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 <technomage.hawke at gmail.com> 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 <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
> > > --
> > > #  https://www.LuftHans.com/        http://www.CiscoLearning.org/
> > > #  <allbery_b> wouldn't that be "shopping is hard, let's do math"?
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