Re: [Xen-users] New Install Planning

[<ray@xxxxxxxxx>]

Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 09:10:30 -0500
From: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] New Install Planning
Cc: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Ray,

ray@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> My goeal is to multiple video, NIC ports, and SATA ports all
> isolatable. I do not intend to address paravirtualization. I wonder
> about usig SSD for dom0 and possibly another SSD for one guest. ray

Well... when I asked about your goal, I was sort of more asking why you
were trying to virtualize, and under what context.

All you've said so far is:
> My intent is to build a machine for running daily tasks and
> experimenting with applications on VMs to facilitate testing and
> manage configurations. Some of these VMs will be running, not heavily
> loaded, while doing daily tasks.
>
> I would like to have bootable disk for a Windows OS, a Debian, and a
> Xen. I expect to mainly use the Xen and perform daily activities in a
> VM. The other two bootable partitions would be as backups.
and
> I plan to buy hardware to match. I am expecting an AMD 4 core and an
> ASUS motherboard.

The important questions are more like:
- Is this going to be a desktop machine or a server?
- What kind of daily tasks are you talking about? Word processing,
spreadsheets, and powerpoints? Video editing? Gaming? Database serving?
It kind of matters.
- Which is your primary environment - Windows or Linux?
- What kinds of applications and configurations are you planning on
experimenting with? and what's the purpose of that experimentation? Are
you doing formal evaluation for an employer, or is this more of a "I
want to play with this stuff" kind of thing?
- Which is more important to you - daily tasks, or the experimentation?
-
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In<fnord> practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
__________

Miles,

This will be a workstation.  I expect to run SVN/Apache on a VM for my
own use so it will be a light load athough it will manage a large
dataset.
My primary environment is Windows.  I will probably start with XP and
change to 8 when it comes out.
My daily tasks are emailing, wordprocessing, spreadsheets, Visio,
programming in Matlab, Mathematica, Python, Eclipse.  I plan on
programming for voice recognition with Dragon.  No gaming.
Experimentation is typically the execution enviroment for these apps and
their configurations.  I am not doing formal evaluations but some of
what I do does get work for me.  Mostly it is play.  About 20% of my
daily tasks are experimentation - trying diffferent ways to do things.

My usual machine behavior is to build a machine and keep it until new
technology allows me to buy a machine 10x as fast as the old.  My
current machine is 6 years old with XP.  I have installed Debian on a
couple laptops.  I don't like continually recovering from errant paths;
I would like to catalogue them and move forward.  Which begs my next
question, is there a configuration management tool that will allow me to
keep track of all these images and scripts that set them up?  I would
like to be able to pull up a script, change it, and build a new VM.  I
can imagine a SVN solution - kind of.

ray


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