Re: [tlug] Xen advice, please

[Peter Van der Weeen <pvanderweeen@example.com>]

mcooper wrote:
> It must be nice to be able to use VMWare, but then again, the scale 
> here is so small that I couldn't justify the expense.
I can understand that the VMWare people are telling everyone you should 
buy their expensive(!) software rather than using their free 
Server/Player version :-)

Well, I'm certainly not an expert in this matter but I can tell from 
experience that it (free VMWare Server [1]) runs fine, both on Windows 
2k3 and Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS host machines.

I've read several articles pointing out the much lower overhead of Xen 
compared to VMWare but - unless you really need all the CPU power you 
can get - just give VMWare a try, I'd say. Installation and 
configuration is pretty straightforward. Deployment of new guest VMs is 
a breeze. They have lots of pre-built virtual appliances [2] that you 
can download and try out.

[1] http://www.vmware.com/products/free_virtualization.html
[2] http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/


Peter

PS: I'd love to talk to people who actually installed Xen. Perhaps at 
the next TLUG meeting?