On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Evan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This just popped up on /. (as im sure many of you frequent the page also..) > it seems to fit in line with this thread.. > > http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/08/11/07/1535235.shtml > > Yeah that is a pretty nifty feat they accomplished. However, what has been > more impressive to me has been > the ability to use create-xen-image (available on ubuntu) and then have > that command with the proper arguments install and configure a distro. > The ability to move back and forth between a xen image and vmware has been pretty useful too. Right now I have it working via a collection of bash scripts, but will try to take some time in the near future to turn it into a ruby script with a possible gui. Andrew McElroy > > > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 10:21 AM, t35t0r <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> > 1. VMWare isn't open source. It's the hands-down leader in >> >> We used VMWare Workstation to virtualize WinXP in RHEL5 for one of our >> clients. Helped him to kill two birds with one stone. >> >> > 2. Xen. I am mostly familiar with Xen on Fedora/CentOS/RHEL. It's >> > quite nice. I use it quite a lot at home and with the Fedora Project. >> > Upsides: >> >> I rarely use any GUIs and thought I would have to do lots of reading >> and look at howtos for getting a VM setup using free tools under Linux >> but virt-manager made it very easy under CentOS. Now if GFS2 was as >> easy to setup and if we had the money for hardware based fencing >> solutions then we could exploit Xen's migration features. >> >> > Downsides >> >> The network performance isn't what I was expecting even after >> allocating a separate NIC for the VM. >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
