On Sunday 18 January 2009 11:24:18 am Jerry Houston wrote:
On Sunday 18 January 2009 08:03:20 Ciro Iriarte wrote:
If you'll be running just linux, the paravirtual performance from Xen can't be beated by VMware, VirtualBox is nice for testing, but not for production, because the VMs die when you close the application.
I'm intrigued with the idea of Xen, but haven't been able to make it work. On my server at home, I can't get a Xen kernel to boot. On my server at work (newer and different hardware), I can get it to boot to a console, but not a GUI, and I can't create a VM. (Both servers are running openSUSE 11.1.)
It's not for lack of proper hardware. The server at home runs a dual-core AMD 64, and hardware virtualization is turned on in the BIOS options. The server at work is a quad-core Intel, normally runs Windows Server 2008, and usually has 4 to 6 Hyper-V virtuals running at any given time.
Are there any special tricks or incantations that are needed for Xen, beyond the obvious?
I found this out the hard way but you better not have a Nvidia card if you wish to run XEN. The driver will not build under XEN, or at least it didn't for me the installer complained about me using XEN and told me to boot into a normal Kernel.