On Tuesday 20 January 2009 01:09:41 Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Adam Jimerson
wrote: On Sunday 18 January 2009 10:30:29 pm Jonathan Ervine wrote:
You can quite happily run a Xen kernel with an nVidia graphics card. Using the proprietary nVidia binary blob as a graphics driver won't work however.
Is there a way to get XEN to use a driver compatible with it, while my normal Kernel still uses the proprietary driver? This machine is not a server, but I need to VM windows for school (the program we use won't work under WINE due to its dependency on .net framework) and I have played with VMware and VirtualBox and wasn't to happy with them. This machine has a AMD Athon 64 x2 at 2.3 Ghz with 3 GB or RAM I'm sure it can handle XEN.
Just an FYI:
Here at work, I switched my desktop to Linux a little over a year ago. I have tried a few VMs to run the few Windows Apps I have to have, but mostly VMware Server and Code Weavers (the $$ version of wine).
Sorry for the pedantry, but, CrossOver/wine is most definitely not a virtualisation product. It provides an environment in which to run Windows applications, and isn't really an emulator either.
I was unimpressed with the speed of both. A few months ago I tried doing a remote desktop to a WIN2008 server and using that as my "Windows Desktop". That has worked great for me since then and I now rarely use a VM on my Linux Workstation. If I do, it is code weavers just because it integrates into Linux so well.
We already had the MS server setup, so it was basically a zero effort setup.
Oddly I have Windows XP set up in KVM and use RDP to access it and have an acceptable response. I guess each person has different requirements and different levels of acceptability.
I know I'm going against the grain, but at this point, I think keeping a real MS machine around and using RDP to run your windows apps is the best choice.
FYI: I don't know which MS OSes support RDP. I've only accessed servers that way, so I know Win2003 / Win2008 both support 2 simultaneous remote users plus the one local user. I'm not the only one doing this, so I actually need to find out what it would cost to add more simultaneous terminal service users to that server. Anyone happen to know. FYI: We do not have any kind of volume purchase agreement with MS.
The word 'ker-ching' springs to mind. As far as I can remember (and it has been a while), is that Microsoft charge more (or possibly an additional charge) for Terminal Services Licenses. I guess you could arguably say you're simply taking advantage of the Remote Administration feature of Windows Server. But it sounds more like you're running applications in a Terminal Services environment. I am most definitely not a Microsoft Licensing expert however. Microsoft operating systems that support RDP are, as far as I can remember, Windows 2000 Server, Windows XP, Windows 2003, and Windows 2008. Vista and I imagine the forthcoming Windows 7 will also support this. Jon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org