On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Johan Mares wrote:

> Is Xen included in SL5 ? If so, also with a maximum of 4 virtual servers ?

Yes. No. It is included, and it works, and there's no such limit (not even 
in the upstream product - at least it's not a technical limitation).

> Does anyone have any experience with Xen ? How does it compare to VMWare (the

It's quite different. And there are two modes of operation (para/full 
virtualization) which are quite different again. Just give it a try and 
find out.

> free edition) ? Any good manuals on how to get started with Xen ?

Why not try the Virtualization Guide coming with SL5 ;-)

> Tried it with Fedora C6 but either it tried to install itself onto the install
> medium (my dvd player) (installing SL4, Debian, Ubuntu) or it disappeared
> (Centos5) after installing.

Read the document named above. Learn about virt-install, virt-manager, and 
the xm command (at least "xm list" and "xm create"). That should be all 
you need to get started.

Hth,

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Stephan Wiesand
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  15738 Zeuthen, Germany

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