Mr Gabriel wrote:>Is it possible to run xen under osx?
>
>I have a pretty beefy laptop, and it would really make my tech life
>pretty much perfect, because I would be able to build vm''s locally,
>and migrate directly to the host destination.
>
>Also, having a bunch of vm''s of various flavors always available is
>also very appealing!
I run Linux VMs under Parallels (http://www.parallels.com/uk/products/desktop/)
It''s not free (not too pricey either), but it does run them quite
nicely. The biggest problem I have is RAM - I''ve an early model
MacBook Pro limited to only 2G, and regularly get VM usage up to 3 or
4 Gig. The bank balance won''t run to a newer model with larger RAM
capability :-/
I''ve not actually tried building a VM under Parallels and then moving
it to Xen - but it should be no harder than migrating a machine from
a real (ie direct on the hardware) machine to a Xen guest.
My preferred technique for migration is :
Install Xen capable kernel on real machine.
Make the volumes, create filesystems, and mount them on the Xen host.
Use rsync (with -avH --numeric-ids) to copy everything from real
machine to guest virtual disks (shutdown things like database engines
first).
Edit things like /etc/fstab in new copy of machine, unmount
filesystems from Xen host.
Shutdown real machine, start Xen guest.
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