Re: Now and Xen

On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 00:30 -0900, Jon Reynolds wrote:
> David J. Weller-Fahy wrote:
>
> > I haven't tried XEN yet (probably won't in the near future, as I just
> > started a bachelor's program), but have tried QEMU. Two suggestions if
> > you do try it:
> >
> > 1) Don't try to use a package, download from the site and compile by
> > hand.
> > 2) Don't use just QEMU, use the accelerator module as well (kernel
> > module). QEMU without the accelerator is *slow* in my experience, and
> > (when emulating x86 on x86) quite snappy with.
> >
> > Here's the URLs:
> > <http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/>
> > <http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/qemu-accel.html>
> >
> > HTH a bit,
>
> Ah, thanks David, I couldn't remember the name of the other one I wanted
> to try. QEMU was the name and you also provided links, very nice! I will
> try a side by side comparison and see which one suits me best.

qemu makes me happy. it makes my checkbook happy. but there are a few
oddities. under gnome wm's if you change workspaces the qemu will
just .. stop. so if you have the option to run virtual machines w/o a
head make it do everything to serial so that it has no idea where the
controlling terminal is, or run it in a vnc :)

Shane

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Received on Sun Jan 22 18:04:23 2006