On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 11:16 -0400, Marshall wrote: > I got my iMac workstation as well as an old AIX box (44P Model 170). I > am using the iMac for a workstation and will dual boot Mint, my former > main box is now a Xen server (Debian 6 dom0).
Dual booting is kinda a thing of the past IMHO. Should virtualize one or the other and just boot into one OS, and run the other when ever. > Is there a simple way to take a native XP installation (on /dev/sda1) > and use (or convert) to a Xen vm? Despite my use of Xen for Linux servers. I use VirtualBox for Windows, both run on graphical Linux machines, desktops and laptops. I am not using VirtualBox on a server, connecting via VNC or Remote Desktop (rdesktop). I have been quite impressed with VirtualBox performance, on machines without hardware virtualization support. Coming from using qemu for Windows for years. Long before hardware virtualization support existed. Back to Xen > 3.0 if you have hardware virtualization support, you can run Windows unmodified. Otherwise you have to have a modified and unavailable version of Windows to run on Xen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xen#Microsoft_Windows_systems_as_guests > I was also looking for GUI Xen utilities for either Mac OS or Ubuntu > until I get used to Xen CLI utilities. I have yet to reseat the > cards/CPU on the AIX box, getting an E0E1 LCD display error. There are web based and native desktop ones you can run. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xen#Xen_Management_Consoles Also came across this project which is rather interesting. Can manage Xen, KVM, and other things. http://www.openqrm.com/ -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
