Re: Now and Xen

The issues I had were with virtual machines even *recognizing* the hardware.

-Jamie

Shane R. Spencer (shane@tdxnet.com) wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 16:14 -0900, Jamie Hushower wrote:
> > I am impressed with the ease of installing multiple Fedora machines machines
> > under Fedora (4), but suspect installing Xen for use with different OSes might
> > not be so smooth. My experience showed the performance be to be excellent.
> > Very little overhead in the controlling machine. I found problems mainly in
> > hardware access and gave up on virtual machines for a fax server (requiring a
> > multi-serial port card) and an Asterisk PBX (requiring a specialty add-on
> > card).
>
> Did you have problems with asterisk because you just needed a timing
> interface, or were you needing to break it down to the telephone network
> at some point. The onyl reason I ask is because there are quite a few
> ways to get around a zaptel timing interface w/ recent asterisk
> revisions.
>
> > -Jamie
> >
> > Jon Reynolds (jonr@destar.net) wrote:
> > >
> > > Has anybody tried the Xen virtualization machine from
> > > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/?
> > >
> > > I have a few OSes I want to try out and was thinking of giving Xen a try
> > > so I can install a few of them and work on them through one machine. I
> > > was just wanting to hear any real world trials and tribulations or if it
> > > is just all hype and is dog slow and not worth the effort.
> > >
> > > Jon
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