[lug] Advice on Xen

[Dan Ferris]

Virtualbox is another one to look at.  The only issue I've found is that 
on Linux, you can't present USB to your VM.

Dan

Nathan Berry wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 5:34 AM, Hugh Brown <hugh at math.byu.edu 
> <mailto:hugh at math.byu.edu>> wrote:
> 
>     pjr wrote:
>      > I just got a new machine with a dual core VT compatible chip.
>      >
>      > I still need a few M$oft compatible products (hate to admit it) that
>      > dont do well under wine, and I need complete compatibility. I
>     have read
>      > a bit about Xen, but there are things I am not clear about.
>     Perhaps one
>      > of you know the answers or can point me to a good place to learn
>     more.
>      >
>      > If there is hardware not easily supported by linux (lets say a
>     wireless
>      > card, fingerprint reader or DVI output from the graphics card),
>     can the
>      > guest OS (lets say XP) still use those hardware components even
>     if dom0
>      > running linux cannot?
>      >
>      > Is there any modern (last 6 months) comparison of tradeoffs in the
>      > various virtualization technologies? I am thinking of Xen,
>     Virtualbox,
>      > Parallels, etc. I can find older comparisons, but nothing recent.
>      >
>      > Also, how about tradeoffs between running windows as the host and
>     linux
>      > the guest, or vice versa? I wonder whether it will make much
>     difference
>      > to me which is which. 95% of my work will be using linux tools, but
>      > can't live without those last 5%.
>      >
>      > Thanks for any advice you have
>      >
>      > Phil
>      >
> 
> 
>     If your primary goal is to get Windows working on a linux host, I'd go
>     with VMware Server.  Parallels is a product for Mac OSX (though VMware
>     just came out with Fusion).
> 
>     I was at a vmware dog and pony and they said that Xen does well with CPU
>     intensive loads but that they do better with I/O loads (and then they
>     proceeded to say that everything is I/O intensive and should use them).
> 
>     Hugh
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> 
> I have used VM Server and got it to work on my laptop, Dell D800 running 
> Ubuntu.  I can tell you that you have to get everything working in your 
> host OS that you want to use in your guest OS.  I got my wireless card, 
> old Linksys, PCMCIA, to work using LINUXANT and then was able to use it 
> in my Windows XP guest OS.  I was very pleased with what I could do 
> between the LINUX machine and the Windows machine.  My only 
> recommendation is to make sure you have ample memory to support your 
> host OS as well as your guest OS.  Once I got it all setup I was very 
> pleased with the environment.
> 
> 
> Nathan
> 
> 
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