[Gllug] Xen - bit of a ramble

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Wed, May 17, 2006 12:35 am, Andy Smith said:
> On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 11:45:44PM +0100, Matthew Cooke wrote:
>> >Agree..  I was going to suggest to anyone with the ability to
>> >implement this that it be possible to tell the real amount of
>> >committed RAM from some file in /proc, if this isn't obvious from
>> >"top".  But then I suppose someone would just come up with a patch
>> >to disable this..  :)
>> >
>> >I see Xen as far more useful for enterprises to consolidate, and
>> >this feature would be very useful there.
>> >
>> I read about server consolidation all the time in marketing literature
>> but
>> I don't really understand why you would do this with low end hardware.
>
> Agree again, I really wouldn't advocate that anyone put all their
> eggs in one basket... but when I said "enterprise" I didn't really
> mean "a business the size of google" as such, I was just using it to
> mean anyone not in the business of selling virtual machines - a poor
> choice of words I see now.
>
> I saw the term "enterprisey" on a blog posting recently so maybe
> that would have been a better choice of words, as Xen seems
> enterprisey to me, letting even the little guy act like he has many
> servers. ;)
>
I think I may use it to "disintegrate" servers - I can set up a guest to
administer a mailing list using a different sendmail from that which uses
smarthost for my ISP and so on. And I can partition access to a very small
part of my network for any collaborators.

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