[wellylug] Server virtualisation

John Fouhy john at fouhy.net
Fri Nov 28 14:17:24 NZDT 2008


On 28/11/2008, Xav Paice <xpaice at oss.co.nz> wrote:
> If you want to run something other than Linux under Xen you need to have the
> right CPU and unless you want the performance to be terrible you better have
> some drivers such as those that Novell can do under SLES or Citrix
> XenServer.  Those cost money which is always a bit of a barrier :)

You can get XenServer Express free: http://www.citrix.com/xenserver/getexpress

It's limited to 4 VMs on one server (IIRC) (excluding ring 0) and the
control software only runs on Windows (but maybe Wine?  I haven't
tried), but it might be worth a look.

-- 
John.



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