[PLUG] Xen Hypervisor

[Paul Heinlein]

On Wed, 5 May 2010, Daniel Herrington wrote:

> All,
>
> I've been thinking of switching from vmware server to full 
> virtualization on my laptop using Xen. I would have the Xen 
> hypervisor running and then Dom0 running a linux flavor with my 
> virtual machines converted to Xen guests. Is anyone Xen? Do you 
> think this would be feasible? What linux flavor would you recommend 
> as Dom0?

Red Hat and related distributions (Fedora, CentOS) are switching to 
KVM. I don't know if the switch says anything about Xen's long-term 
non-Red Hat prospects -- but if you're commited to Xen, Red Hat is 
definitely not the way to go.

Debian stable (lenny) has good Xen support, and it's likely to be 
around for a while. I suspect the LTS versions of Ubuntu are in the 
same boat.

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Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> www.madboa.com