Xen

[Fraser Campbell]

On Saturday 28 April 2007 10:01:34 Howard Gibson wrote:

>    What does Xen do for a desktop user who is not doing kernel hacking or
> other software development?

Xen is for running virtual machines.  If you want to run different versions of 
Linux simultenously it can be useful.  If you want to run windows it can be 
useful (assuming you have hardware virtualization support).  Only you can 
answer why you might want a virtual machine, if you don't want one then 
definitely don't run Xen.

Xen does mess up some hardware support (last I checked my b44 network driver 
still did not work under it).  If you decide you do want virtual machines but 
want something less intrusive try KVM (if you have have hardware 
virtualization support) or QEMU.

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Fraser Campbell <fraser-Txk5XLRqZ6CsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org>
Georgetown, Ontario, Canada
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