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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).
I read somewhere that the Xen version included with RHEL5 is limited to 4 virtual servers (license). Maybe you have to pay to get more.
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,

Thanx for the reply.

Johan

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