[Lancaster] idea for regular computer evening at the Basement

[Richard Robinson]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:30:22PM +0100, Ken Hough wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Many thanks for this simple guidance for a simple user.  :-)
> 
> I guess that, I'll go with VirtualBox then.

I had a look at some of these, earlier this year. VirtualBox is much more
desktop-y than Xen, to the point of being downright easy. Drawback is, it
won't do 64-bit VMs. I can't comment on its actual use, because that was a
stopper for me, but it's certainly easy to install & have a look at. Good
first choice.

-- 
Richard Robinson
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