>>> On Wed, Sep 6, 2006 at 9:44 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <> quote who="James Gray"> > 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. :- ) Yes you can do it with XP out of the box if you have the right hardware (Intel VTX). I'm hosting 2 w2k3, 1 SLES10 and 1 SLED10 machines on my XEN host.
> 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. IIRC, you are not allowed to use the free VMWare Server in a production environment. Only for LAB purposes. Cheers, Magnus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
