Hello Werner et al: As suggested below, xen is more for servers than workstations. If you get it from a repo it installs a xen kernel, which you select at boot from the grub menu. Then you have to create an image for xen to load. It's really straightforward (compared to what it used to be:), and setting up images is no big deal. From there, it's just a matter of "xm -c /etc/xen/imagename" from the CLI or use a GUI (i think its "System->VirtualMachineManager")
But for a workstation it may be overkill. Personally, I'd stick to qemu, but I have yet to try kvm, which may be a better alternative. FWIW, have this plethora of virtualizers, I really have little need for using any of them apart from development purposes. Hope this helps and Happy New Year, Rion On Thursday 01 January 2009, Jacob Torrey wrote: > I suggest out of the three you use kvm, xen is pretty specialized for > running other Linux images, and Bochs is rather old. KVM takes advantage > of your VT extensions on your CPU (if you have them, otherwise it's that > same as qemu). You can run it from the command line bye typing 'kvm' to > get a list of commands, which will handle anything from network, sound > and others. There is a virt manager for Ubuntu to GUIize KVM, and it's > guide can be found at: > http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/04/14/virtualization-with-virt-manager-and-kvm-in-ubuntu-804/ > > Good luck! > > Jacob > > Warner White wrote: > > Ron-- > > > > You suggested I run VirtualBox, and I'm doing it. It's easy and works > > well--except for the very clunky USB connection I finally succeeded in > > making. But I need one for trying to HotSync my PDA and so far I > > haven't been able to. So I'm trying Xen or other virtualizers. I've > > discovered that Xen, kvm, and Bochs are all available through Synaptic > > Pkg Mgr. So I've installed, only to discover that they don't show up > > in Applications or System Preferences or Administration. I take that > > to mean I have to start them from command line--but I don't know how > > to do that. And perhaps there are some dependecies I still need. The > > web sites look very complicated--line after line of command line stuff. > > > > I did DOS years ago and I can do simple command line stuff, but I > > still have a long way to go. > > > > Suggestions? > > > > Warner > > > > Warner White > > 12 Harbor Watch Road > > Burlington VT 05401 > > H: 802-863-0182 > > C: 802-318-0956 > > www.warnerwhite.org > > >
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