Topic: Virtualization - Vmware versus Xen.

[arne]

slords ->

Thanks for info. It could be my specific mainboard as well as a part of the problem.. but none of my attemts to do a web based installation of sme7.3 has worked. The web based installation of Centos 5.1/32 to the Centos 5.1/32/OldAthlon is running just now. I will try to do another sme installation from ibiblio when this is finished.

No .. the Centos 5.1 went in without a problem doing an installation in the para-virt mode. Tried same procedure for the SME from ibilio, but did not work, this time and on this hardware either, only a msg that the proper installation files were not found.


imcintyre ->

The old Atlon900/1Gig accepted a para-virt. Centos 5.1/32 installation. At least the Gnome method did not give the full virtualization option. I have not been able (yet ?) to install a SME 7.3 as virtual guest on the pld hardware.

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By the way .. If using "the Gnome method", system can be runned in text mode after, and virtual installations will still work. (init 3 for text and return to Gnome - init 5)

[Franco]

I'm new to Xen!
Can I run SME and have Xen installed and other systems as guests making full utilization of the hardware?

[arne]

I'm not sure. Xen require some dedicated or customized kernel to work as host system. I thought it would not be practical to run Xen under SME 7.3 as you have to replace the kernel, but I'm not sure if anybody disagred on this point of view somewhere above in the tread or in some other tread. I have not tested SME 7.3 as a Xen host system, and I would expect it woulf be difficult to set up. (But SME 7.3 as a Xen guest is not a problem.)

On the other hand Xen runns more or less straight out of the box if you install Centos 5.1 with Gnome and also select "support for virtualization". You can then install SME 7.3 as a guest.

[SoftDux]

well, since SME is running on CentOS 4.6, what happens if one replace the SME kernel with a CentOS 4.6 XEN enabled kernel?

Has anyone successfully installed Xen on top of SME yet? This would be great to test out SME 8.0, and other OS's as well