On 4/27/06, Kai Ponte <kai@perfectreign.com> wrote:
Hopefully I'll be getting SUSE in here at my new office, too. I just have to convince upper management that my 98,000 co-workers need to upgrade from Windows. (Yes, I am thinking more on a departmental level ATM. I'm not totally crazy....yet.)
I've got a few convinced already that my laptop has the coolest screensaver (matrix) in the building.
Keep up with the new Xen/VT technology coming out. You need a new CPU/MB/etc. to use it with XP, but ... Once you have the right hardware and Xen 3.0 you should be able to boot your machine to SUSE 10.1, use that as your host os/hypervisor. Then have client os'es of XP, SUSE, BSD, etc. And all of that should run with fairly small overhead from Xen due to its para-virtualization technology. I've heard less than 5% overhead when it is a para-virtualized guest OS. SUSE 10 (and 10.1 i assume) come with a para-virtualized kernel to support XEN efficiently. I haven't seen overhead percentages for XEN running XP via VT yet. Back to your proselytizing, you would be able set your co-workers up as dual os, then interaction by interaction they could decide which OS to use. That gives them the ability to make the transition one application at a time. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century