[Xen-users] Virtualizing primary desktop

[Gordon Cooke <gordon.cooke3@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm planning to use Xen to virtualize my new desktop at home- a bit of an experiment for me.  Should I a) use my primary working linux distro that I use day-to-day as dom0 so I have easy access to peripherals and control over things, or b) use a minimal headless install for dom0 and make my day-to-day desktop a domU so I minimze risk of breaking the entire Xen environment and just passthrough the peripherals?  Anyone have any experience or advice?

 

Thanks

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Detailed background for anyone interested:

Have a new 8 core machine I'm setting up.

Consider the following VMs to isolate some tasks so services are somewhat isolated and dont break each other:

- Linux Desktop

- Win7 Desktop

- Media server to stream music and video collection (considering Plex)

- File and print server (Samba, CUPS, NFS, etc)

- Backup server to pull/sync data with other machines in house (considering Backup PC)

and probably a handful of distros Im trying out to test things, probably a LAMP stack for some development

 

This would be the central computer in the house thats always on.  Home network consists of this machine, ipad, Asus tablet, iphone, android phone, a smart BlueRay, a windows laptop and a few linux laptops.  If the media streaming works out then will probably add a Roku or something similar.

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