Virtualization

[D. Hageman]

Jason D. Clinton wrote:
> On 1/10/08, *D. Hageman* <dhageman at dracken.com 
> <mailto:dhageman at dracken.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Xen was merged into the mainstream kernel last July(ish).
> 
> 
> Xen as a guest support is mainline but for i386 only (useless on modern 
> hardware in a datacenter) with 2.6.23 being the first release of this. 
> The hypervisor stuff is still thoroughly intrusive and unlikely to go in 
> any time soon.

My understanding is the original poster wanted a separate environment to
work with KDE4.  Do you really think they are a) running in a datacenter 
or b) running something other then x86 hardware?


> 
>     If the distro you use comes with Xen and management tools for Xen then
>     that is probably the best option.
> 
> 
> All the distros with Xen hosting support are providing special kernels 
> that have the giant patch sets applied to them.

I won't argue this point.  I will say this: if the distro is confident 
enough to ship the software and is willing to support it with updates, 
then it is better to stick with what your distro supports then start 
mucking with your config and turn your machine into a "non-standard" 
box.  I see quite a few people have trouble with linux because they 
start with a nicely built distro and the first thing they do is start 
pulling out tarballs of source and compiling software to install.


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