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On 06/09/2006, at 9:44 PM, Jeff Waugh wrote:
<quote who="James Gray">
So my question to the group is simply this; has anyone had success
running any of the following under Xen as guest operating systems
(preferably in a business/enterprise setting)?
Xen is designed around the idea of 'paravirtualisation', which
requires
modifications to the guest operating system. The Cambridge labs
that have
now spun off into XenSource did have Windows running under Xen at
one point,
but only because they had access to the source. Can't quite do it
with an XP
CD out of the box. :-)
Ah - that's what I was thinking too.
Right now, with Xen, you are mostly limited to Linux, but there is
work
being done on other operating system support such as OpenSolaris.
FreeBSD? Just curious. We're actually standardising our non-Solaris
*nix boxen to Linux (RHEL4 ES mostly) but there are a few things we
prefer to do the "BSD" way for the time being (like remote syslog and
Radius servers).
You might want to look into VMWare - you can start with the VMWare
Server
product at *no cost*, and move up to their enterprisey versions
later on if
you require the (very impressive) functionality.
Yes - VMware Server was the other option. I was just thinking if it
could be done with Xen then why not? Oh well - maybe later. VMware
Server isn't a show-stopper and our company already has it in use for
other things right now.
Cheers,
James
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