Re: [Xen-users] Another begginer

["Gilberto Martins" <gsilva.martins@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi again folks.

Just to answer two same questions:
Petersson:
> That probably depends quite a bit on what you actually want to do with
> your Dom0
Anuj Bhatt:
> It depends on your specific needs.
I want a system to practice conectivity among different OSes. There
will be no production at all, just many tests that should normally
require different computers, interconnected to each other. There I
will combine Mandriva, OpenSuse, Debian, Slackware, FreeBSD, NetBSD
and Windows (98/XP2k series), each one performing different services
(email, proxy, firewalls, etc). I will often make many changes to each
one of then, and to start a new set of tests, I will need a brand new
installation of each OS. Like in VMWare (I think), all I will need to
do is copy the file of a Virtual Computer over the modified one to
have a whole new one again. My studies will need Internet access, for
ocasionally updating some packages, thus I guess all of the host OS
will need a connection to the real network interfaces.

But I don't want to keep using a free version of VMWare, since XEN
seems to be farly more fancy and challenging. Dreams of a wannabe
"bits polisher", if this make any sense... :)

The sad point is that my computer is a poor and weak P4 512MRam, and
not a Pacifica or a VT. So, I wish to have the lightest host OS I can
for XEN, since it will make no work, but playing the DOM0 part in this
"film". If it is possible that this host OS lacks any graphical
interface, that should be better. At least, this is my guess.

I am reading the links you all sent me, and I will try not to make
obvious questions. But for now, I really need the kick-starting to it.
Hope I can do it by myself afterwords.

> Finally, in my setup, I use SDL over SSH with X-windows forwarding - so
> the display of my Xen-guest is displayed on a different machine than
> where it runs - it works just fine. So I can run MS Windows on machine
> "svm" and view it on machine "devel" - I like that because I can have
> all my development windows visible at the same time as I look at what
> the guest is doing, rather than switching back and forth across the
> machines.
That really seems a killer item !!! I should learn to do that also,
seems really cool and functional. Need to learn Windows first :)

But for now, I want this baked off my begginer's oven.

Once more, thanks for your help.

Glberto Martins

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