First, a warm hello. Second, I use virtualization in a very amateur way by sticking with workstation type products; vmware fusion & workstation and microsofts virtual pc. These have drawbacks as they require a host to run and a script to boot up the various guest os''s as well as other short comings. I am ready to take it to a new level, xen server and am really stoked! I just installed xen on centos 5.2, very easy. I am hoping to apply this hypervisor approach were I have some thin layer of a virtual traffic cop of sorts running 2 oses (centos 5.2 for a drupal server and rhel 5 runnning a zimbra server) on my Intelx64 box which is; Intel Core 2x2.4GHz 4GB mem I just enabled Intel Virtualization Technology in the BIOS (it sounded good and probably relates to what I want to do). Can some one direct me to some docs (haven''t found any) on installing a hyper visor on my box and its requirements? I''m pretty stoked to be getting away from vmware and using what seems to be a linux friendly approach. - Brian _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Brian Krusic wrote:> First, a warm hello. > > Second, I use virtualization in a very amateur way by sticking with > workstation type products; vmware fusion & workstation and microsofts > virtual pc. > > These have drawbacks as they require a host to run and a script to > boot up the various guest os''s as well as other short comings. > > I am ready to take it to a new level, xen server and am really stoked! > > I just installed xen on centos 5.2, very easy. > > I am hoping to apply this hypervisor approach were I have some thin > layer of a virtual traffic cop of sorts running 2 oses (centos 5.2 for > a drupal server and rhel 5 runnning a zimbra server) on my Intelx64 > box which is; > > Intel Core > 2x2.4GHz > 4GB mem > > I just enabled Intel Virtualization Technology in the BIOS (it sounded > good and probably relates to what I want to do). > > Can some one direct me to some docs (haven''t found any) on installing > a hyper visor on my box and its requirements? > > I''m pretty stoked to be getting away from vmware and using what seems > to be a linux friendly approach. > > - BrianHere is a tutorial from HowtoForge about installing Xen on CentOS 5.2 _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Brian Krusic wrote:> First, a warm hello. > > Second, I use virtualization in a very amateur way by sticking with > workstation type products; vmware fusion & workstation and microsofts > virtual pc. > > These have drawbacks as they require a host to run and a script to > boot up the various guest os''s as well as other short comings. > > I am ready to take it to a new level, xen server and am really stoked! > > I just installed xen on centos 5.2, very easy. > > I am hoping to apply this hypervisor approach were I have some thin > layer of a virtual traffic cop of sorts running 2 oses (centos 5.2 for > a drupal server and rhel 5 runnning a zimbra server) on my Intelx64 > box which is; > > Intel Core > 2x2.4GHz > 4GB mem > > I just enabled Intel Virtualization Technology in the BIOS (it sounded > good and probably relates to what I want to do). > > Can some one direct me to some docs (haven''t found any) on installing > a hyper visor on my box and its requirements? > > I''m pretty stoked to be getting away from vmware and using what seems > to be a linux friendly approach. > > - BrianHere is a tutorial from HowtoForge about installing Xen on CentOS 5.2. It covers install the Hypervisor and setting up some guests. Hope it helps. http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-xen-on-centos-5.2-i386 Although it says it is for i386 it should also work for x86_64. Have fun. Mike _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users