> > It is a development-oriented machine, where certain projects require > different environments. In general, I reboot that box much more often > than any Linux box that I have ever had. I was wondering whether that > machine might possibly be able to run all of those operating systems > simultaneously. However, according to my reading so far, I would need > to recompile each of them for Xen use. > >
Maybe - it depends a little if you actually require some features of the specific kernel, or if it's just the file system you need. I have run both RHEL3 & 4 under Xen, just by installing on another box, then copying the filesystem over to the Xen server. There is some minor hackery involved, and it complains during startup a little, but it was sufficient to test what needed testing, which was software that only supported RHEL - by which it really meant was that it was expecting RHEL's FS layout & rpms - nothing kernel specific. David. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
