On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 09:40:33PM -0700, Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Wed, 5 May 2010, Daniel Herrington wrote: > > I've been thinking of switching from vmware server to full > > virtualization on my laptop using Xen. I would have the Xen > > hypervisor running and then Dom0 running a linux flavor with my > > virtual machines converted to Xen guests. Is anyone Xen? Do you > > think this would be feasible? What linux flavor would you recommend > > as Dom0? > > Red Hat and related distributions (Fedora, CentOS) are switching to > KVM. I don't know if the switch says anything about Xen's long-term > non-Red Hat prospects -- but if you're commited to Xen, Red Hat is > definitely not the way to go. > > Debian stable (lenny) has good Xen support, and it's likely to be > around for a while. I suspect the LTS versions of Ubuntu are in the > same boat.
Actually, that's not the case for Ubuntu either, the preferred solution there also being KVM. Running as a paravirt guest is supported, if for no other reason than to work with Amazon's EC2 service. I *think* the 8.04 LTS was the last release to have a dom0 kernel, and even that I believe was in universe, not main. The other thing to watch for when running a Xen dom0 on your laptop, assuming it matters to you, is to make sure stuff like suspend/resume still works; an ex co-worker of mine tried to do it a few years ago, and found that it broke it for him, whereas suspend/resume would work normally with the same kernel not running as dom0. I haven't followed Xen development to see if they're more careful now about such issues. -- Steve Beattie <[email protected]> http://NxNW.org/~steve/
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