> Some background - I have a couple of NetBSD (i386) > boxes and CentOS 5 boxes that I want to virtualise > and I'm trying to work out which OS will be most > suitable as the dom0. I have a desire to run at > least RAID1 and ideally ZFS mirroring on the dom0 so > I can have all the domU's not have to worry about > disk redundancy etc. > My hardware : I have a brand new Intel E8200 core2duo > and an Intel G33 chipset motherboard that the BIOS > claims supports virtualisation, and 6GB of RAM and a > pair of 500GB SATA HDDs - so I should be able to use > HVM to run some domU's without needing them to be > xen-aware.
What HVM has to be aware of , if not xen ? I want to, in particular, get a SCO > OpenServer 5.0.5 box running somehow in a virtual > machine if possible with xen, if all else fails then > with VMware. > > I'm evaluating whether to use NetBSD 4.0 amd64, some > stable(!) version of linux (CentOS 5?) or OpenSolaris > bxx as the dom0. I'd really like to use OpenSolaris > with ZFS boot/root if it's possible to do this in a > dom0 arrangement as it's my much preferred > filesystem, but am not sure how stable the > OpenSolaris stuff is at this time? Would consider Ubuntu 7.10 as Dom0. > > Can anyone here let me know if I'm dreaming or if > this is achievable and not overly difficult to get > working with current builds of OpenSolaris? Any good > war stories? This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ xen-discuss mailing list [email protected]
