I just got started with Xen. I''ve managed to get Xen 2.0.4 running on my home server. I did this mostly to play with/learn about cool new technology. But I''m now thinking about isolating some of my services into seperate domains. Basically my plan is to run Domain-0 in as small of a footprint as possible on a base OS that doesn''t change much. Almost nothing will run in Domain-0 except Xen, RAID, and LVM. Domain-0 will run off of RAID1. Because nothing will change in Domain-0, incremental backups won''t be as important as reliable disk. Where the changes will occur is in other domains (one will run my mailserver, another my webserver and the last my samba server). I''ll use LVM to create disks for these domains which will be snapshotted in Domain-0 to provide incremental backups. I have a number of questions: 1) Is this a reasonable plan? Is there something that I (as a complete Xen newbie) am missing in my plan that will cause it to not work out as well as I think it will? 2) Assuming my plan is reasonable, is there a good way to figure out the memory requirements for Domain-0? Since it''s going to be doing very little, I''d like to allocate as few resources as possible. It''s easy to figure out how much disk space to allocate, and the CPU will be allocated using the BVT scheduler. But memory is a little trickier to measure. Any good tips? Thanks in advance for the assistance. ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel