> First, in my experience, all 'full virtualization' products suck. > They are slow and buggy. I only support paravirtualized kernels.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but paravirtualized you can only run similar guest OSes, right? What if your host is Linux, and you need a Windows Server guest? I think this is something that can only be done fully virtualized. > The commercial xenserver product might be worth a shot if you really > need graphical tools. It's free, I hear, for the basic version. But > the management console is windows only. It's not so much that I really need graphical tools - But how else can you get the gui console of the guest OS? Suppose the guest is unavailable for some reason via ssh/rdp/vnc. Then you need the actual console of the guest, to either fix the problem or reboot the guest, and the only way I know of is to get inside something like VMM or VMware Console Client. Do you know another way? I'm aware of VNC console, but it's not secure enough to leave it normally-on, and I don't think you can temporarily enable it while the guest is already running. > But, in my opinion, graphical tools are overrated. xm is really the > only > management tool you need. This is again, a place where maybe you know something I don't know - How can you eject a CD via xm command, and then insert a different CD without shutting down the guest OS? Normally this is not a big problem, except when installing the guest OS. Windows server requires two CD's to install. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
