[lug] So much for VMware

[Daniel Webb]

As an update to this, I got a Xen working with a running Debian debootstrap
virtualized system in less than an hour including the main system reboot
following these instruction for Etch:

http://blog.thedebianuser.org/?p=166

which references

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/396

A few things in the second (longer) link were out of date, but I was able to
pick them out by context without knowing anything about Xen or the changes in
Etch.  One thing if you try this is that I think the Etch RC1 Xen packages
update grub for you automatically.  I did almost nothing, everything just
worked.  Remember to restart xend after you update the settings.

Bravo Xen developers and Debian Xen packagers, that is how software is
supposed to work!

[update] If you try this, get the Xen kernels from unstable (2.6.18), the ones
in testing crash (kernel panic) if you run three VMs (apparently this is
widely known).  Hope they get that fixed by the time Etch releases.

On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 07:00:06PM -0700, Daniel Webb wrote:

> I had nothing but good things to say about the VMware beta on Linux (it
> worked flawlessly), so I figured I'd upgrade to the "stable" version.  What
> could go wrong if the beta was that good, right?  Now VNC doesn't work right
> with it and it hangs approximately every 20 minutes.  I'm running a base
> Debian Sarge virtual machine so I know it's not the VM OS hanging.
>
> And thanks to it not being open source, I'm not going to be able to get back
> that working beta install.  Guess I'm not too bright; how many times do I
> have to get burned to learn that proprietary software is nearly always more
> trouble than it's worth, even when it's free?  I may not be out any money
> but the time I spent installing and learning VMware was wasted.  Back to
> qemu or time to learn Xen.