[Gllug] Xen - bit of a ramble

Martin A. Brooks martin at hinterlands.org
Wed May 17 10:10:39 UTC 2006


Wulf Forrester-Barker wrote:
> If it's all about creating virtual machines for you to work on, why 
> not install a distro that works well with Xen as your base and then 
> put your preferred distro as one of the options in the working 
> environment? Does it matter that Fedora Core this or SuSE that doesn't 
> provide a good host environment really matter? 

Because completely reinstalling a working server from scratch is a bit 
overkill for a kernel patch and a few extra binaries, at a guess.  Plus 
running a server on a desktop distro is a, errr, brave decision.

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