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, -- Stephan Wiesand DESY - DV - Platanenallee 6 15738 Zeuthen, Germany
