[Lancaster] idea for regular computer evening at the Basement

[Ken Hough]

Richard,

Thanks for that.

So no 64 bit VMs? I assume that this applies even if I am running a 64 bit 
host OS.

Ken Hough

On Thursday 23 October 2008 14:41, you wrote:
> 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.