[Lancaster] idea for regular computer evening at the Basement

[Ken Hough]

On Wednesday 22 October 2008 18:37, Martyn Welch wrote:
> On Monday 20 October 2008 23:13:26 Ken Hough wrote:
> > My next step is to try out some virtualisation software. You guys have
> > talked about VirtualBox, but what about Xen which is provided with SUSE?
>
> That depends :-)
>
> Fedora can act as a Xen Dom0 (the host OS) and has a script to enable the
> easy setting up of Fedora DomU (clients) instances.
>
> The version of Xen supported by Xensource (now part of Citrix), is really
> just a minimalistic Dom0, with some quite fancy (though I believe Windows
> only) software for remote management. It also has some limitations imposed
> unless you pay. That has scripts for setting up Debian and Redhat
> Enterprise (I believe CentOS as well).
>
> If Suse supports Xen, then they probably have scripts for setting up Suse
> DomUs.
>
> To be honest, I not sure I'd bother with Xen on a desktop, it's more of a
> server virtualisation thing.
>
> Martyn

Martyn,

Many thanks for this simple guidance for a simple user.  :-)

I guess that, I'll go with VirtualBox then.

Regards

Ken Hough