NeoGen
04-16-2007, 08:01 PM
I'm planning to acquire for myself (part by part, not all at once) a dual-opteron board (ASUS KFN32-D SLI), a couple of Optys 2216, and 4Gb of DDR2 Registered ECC RAM.
Now the thing is... altough I know very little about it, I wanna get into virtualization, and be able to run several VM's on that machine, with windows and possibly Linux and stuff like that.
I heard that Xen makes up for a great hypervisor, but I don't know how does it really work, and I got alot of questions about it.
Has anyone tried it, or has it working? I see on the site that there's an free express version that can create up to 4 VMs, which is great for me to start with.
Does anyone have experience with it? Can anyone give me hints on how it works? My idea is that the hypervisor is the first thing installed on the machine, and it takes over the hardware, so that we later create VM's and they communicate to the hardware through Xen only, not natively. Is that right?
Link to Xen: http://www.xensource.com/
Now the thing is... altough I know very little about it, I wanna get into virtualization, and be able to run several VM's on that machine, with windows and possibly Linux and stuff like that.
I heard that Xen makes up for a great hypervisor, but I don't know how does it really work, and I got alot of questions about it.
Has anyone tried it, or has it working? I see on the site that there's an free express version that can create up to 4 VMs, which is great for me to start with.
Does anyone have experience with it? Can anyone give me hints on how it works? My idea is that the hypervisor is the first thing installed on the machine, and it takes over the hardware, so that we later create VM's and they communicate to the hardware through Xen only, not natively. Is that right?
Link to Xen: http://www.xensource.com/