Re: [Ilugc] Virtualization

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Rahul Sundaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Girish Venkatachalam wrote: >> So the design and code of VMWare and Xen are wildly different since the >> goals though similar follow somewhat antipodal approaches. > > Not really. VMWare has a hypervisor based solution fo

Re: [Ilugc] Virtualization

On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, benjamin wrote: > in Xen, would you call Dom0 the host? You are right about the fact that even Dom0 is "only" a special domain. My statement was made from a usage perspective rather than as strict logical dependency. Regards, Kapil. -- _

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Re: [Ilugc] Virtualization

> > Usually, there _is_ a base operating system which is called the host. > > The tasks of the host are (at least): > a. To make it convenient to create and manage guests. > b. To manage hardware access for the hosts. > in Xen, would you call Dom0 the host? Dom0, a special domain (VM) too runs o

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Re: [Ilugc] Virtualization

Girish Venkatachalam wrote: Now the main difference between Xen and VMWare is this: " Xen does not emulate the underlying hardware completely. This means that OSes have to be modified to run on top of Xen hypervisor. You can never run an OS directly over Xen. Whereas VMWare does full hardwa

Re: [Ilugc] Virtualization

>>>You can never run an OS directly over Xen. is this so in Xen 3.1 running on top of a Intel VT supported architecture? I heard that running an OS with out changing it is now possible with the above mentioned combination which is why CITRIX has bought Xen source . I might have heard wrong but

Re: [Ilugc] coolness

> given that they have employed a million, I dont think they > worry > about species. But I think we must protest - if M$ ties up > all the > monkeys, how do we get perl code developed? > > -- > > regards > kg some of the lead "money+ keys = monkeys" were seen hopping and screaming on stag

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Re: [Ilugc] coolness

On 20-Aug-08, at 6:13 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: http://humorix.org/articles/2007/12/monkeys/ -- regards kg One thing is not clear, which species of mon(k)eys were being used by MS? That's a big difference... given that they have employed a million, I dont think they worry about s

Re: [Ilugc] Re: Sify Vs Linux Consumer Forum (Raja Subramanian)

> They give you an ADSL router with an ethernet port (also a > USB port) > on the LAN side. Works out of the box. > > regds > > -- Thanks I will try that. But an interesting thing happened -- something I always do. The Sify engineer that came to my place to rectify the problem. I bombarded him

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Re: [Ilugc] Re: Sify Vs Linux Consumer Forum (Raja Subramanian)

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 8:32 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does it need some tweaking to make GNU/Linux work on it, or it works out of > the box? They give you an ADSL router with an ethernet port (also a USB port) on the LAN side. Works out of the box. regds -- A facility

Re: [Ilugc] coolness

Hello, On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: >>> From: Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> http://humorix.org/articles/2007/12/monkeys/ > > we have to wait till they reprogram the shift key to decide that ;-) These primate research guys should learn to use "xmodmap" or "loadkeys". :

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Re: [Ilugc] Re: Sify Vs Linux Consumer Forum (Raja Subramanian)

> > Whats MSNL?!! If you mean BSNL, I have been using it for 4 > years now > -at distant Avadi - without a glitch except for once when > the BSNL > cable got damaged because of digging by somebody else. > Other than that > incident, I have never had to contact them. It just works. > > regds, > m

Re: [Ilugc] Re: Sify Vs Linux Consumer Forum (Raja Subramanian)

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The problem is in my locality, only Sify is available. I have heard that MSNL > can be a lot troublesome when down...so have not tried that. > Whats MSNL?!! If you mean BSNL, I have been using it for 4 years now -at

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Re: [Ilugc] Re: Sify Vs Linux Consumer Forum (Raja Subramanian)

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Re: [Ilugc] coolness

> http://humorix.org/articles/2007/12/monkeys/ > > -- > > regards > kg One thing is not clear, which species of mon(k)eys were being used by MS? That's a big difference... Swapnil Unlimited freedom, unlimited storage. Get it now, on http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/mail/yahoomail

[Ilugc] Re: Sify Vs Linux Consumer Forum (Raja Subramanian)

I would recommend not to go for any cable at all. I have tried 2-3 cable vendors and all of them suck big time. Hathway, Sify included. In my experience - DSL is much more reliable. Airtel and BSNL are pretty good. I have been using Airtel ADSL for more than 3 yrs in my office (10 employees) an

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Re: [Ilugc] coolness

On 20-Aug-08, at 4:28 PM, Raman.P wrote: From: Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Ilugc] coolness To: "ILUG-C Chennai" Date: Wednesday, 20 August, 2008, 3:24 PM http://humorix.org/articles/2007/12/monkeys/ The experiment confirms that perl is for human beings. we have to wai

Re: [Ilugc] coolness

> From: Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Ilugc] coolness > To: "ILUG-C Chennai" > Date: Wednesday, 20 August, 2008, 3:24 PM > http://humorix.org/articles/2007/12/monkeys/ The experiment confirms that perl is for human beings. Raman.P Download prohibited? No problem. CHA

Re: [Ilugc] How to compile linux kernel 0.11

On 8/20/08, Kapil Hari Paranjape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Compilation should work but you probably need an older version of gcc > (2.95 may be enough). I suspect 0.11 will not compile otherwise. I'd rather put an old OS under virtualisation and have fun with it, it will be low on resources an

Re: [Ilugc] coolness

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://humorix.org/articles/2007/12/monkeys/ > The funniest part of the site was this "Windows Vista, the world's most talked-about operating system" Good example of day dreaming :) -- Thank you Balachand

[Ilugc] coolness

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Re: [Ilugc] Virtualization

On 07:05:54 Aug 20, baskar k wrote: > I'll try to demonstrate virtualization using Xen. Xen is a fairly > simple operating system that acts as a hypervisor that other OSes can > run on top of it. > Virtualization is a technique by which mutiple guest operating system > can be allowed to be run on

Re: [Ilugc] Virtualization

On Wednesday 20 Aug 2008, benjamin wrote: > "Virtualization is a technique by which mutiple guest operating > system can be allowed to be run on a base operating system" > > on "a base operating system" or "on the hardware"? On a "base (or host) operating system". VM has been there on mainframe

Re: [Ilugc] Virtualization

Hello, On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, benjamin wrote: > "Virtualization is a technique by which mutiple guest operating system > can be allowed to be run on a base operating system" > > on "a base operating system" or "on the hardware"? Usually, there _is_ a base operating system which is called the host

Re: [Ilugc] Virtualization

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Re: [Ilugc] How to compile linux kernel 0.11

Dear Sanath, On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, sanath kumar wrote: > Hi friends, I'm an UG student. I'm very much interested in linux and i am > well versed with the theoritical basics of OS. I also am doing a course on > UNIX. So i thought it would high time to make my hands dirty on kernel > codes. I did not