On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Adam Jimerson
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). 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. 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. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org