[Nottingham] User-mode-linux alternatives

[David Bottrill]

On Tuesday 14 June 2005 10:49, Graeme Fowler wrote:
> On Tue 14 Jun 2005 10:01:23 BST , Matthew Walster <matthew at walster.org> 
wrote:
> > Does anyone here have any experience in this area?
>
> Qemu has been quite a useful piece of software for me (and the only
> non-commercial virtualisation environment that I've used):
>
> http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/
>
> Those of you with a "strictly F/OSS, (L)GPL, BSD or similar" licensing
> bent will not like Qemu as it has a proprietary, closed-source,
> binary-only accelerator module (which I hasten to add is quite
> spectacular in the speed bump it gives).
>
> I've used qemu on a number of occasions, usually for POC testing before
> going into a hardware based test.
>
> I see that FC4 now has the Xen extensions rolled in, haven't played
> with it yet (only released < 24 hours ago) but I would surmise that
> having it in a distro makes installation, config and manglement much
> simpler.
>
I've been playing with xen on SuSE 9.3  and it works extremely well, it does 
what it says on the tin. SuSE and I presume Fedora provide xen enabled 
kernels and if required a suitable initrd.

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