Xen? (was Re: [wellylug] Mailing List & Webserver)

[Jamie Baddeley]

It'd be great to have wellyluggers present 'Xen howto' at a meeting.

jamie

On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 15:15 +1300, Donald Gordon wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:36:29 +1300, Cliff Pratt <enkidu at cliffp.com> wrote:
> > 
> > What do you think of Xen (well it must fit the bill or you wouldn't use 
> > it, I guess). Have you tried other VM solutions, eg UML?
> 
> Xen is great.  UML is much more hassle, and its performance isn't that
> hot.  The only caveats I'd mention with Xen is that you really don't
> want your virtual block devices to be loopback devices -- use LVM or
> something.
> 
> donald
>