Virtualization on Debian

[Dave Cramer]

On 12-Feb-07, at 9:47 PM, Meng Cheah wrote:

> Dave Cramer wrote:
>
>> Meng,
>>
>> What I did learn here is that you need relatively recent  
>> processors  with hardware virtualization built in
>>
>> KVM won't work on processors without it whereas Xen will
>>
>> I'll be taking my server live this week and for a very short  
>> period  of time could allow you access to one of the guests.
>>
>> Dave
>
> Dave
>
> Thanks for the information regarding the hardware requirements.
>
> I appreciate your offer of access but I have to decline as  
> honestly, I'm starting from square one with regard to  
> virtualization and this is a hectic week for me (Chinese New Year  
> is on Sunday and I hope to be out of town next week).
>
> I'm touched by your offer, open source "hospitality"? :-)
> I believe it embodies the best of the spirit of open source.

Well I believe that I usually get back more than I give, but yeah,  
it's more or less open source hospitality. Also virtualization allows  
me the unique opportunity to do this, as I can just tear the machine  
down afterwards and rebuild it.

Regards,

Dave
>
> All the best.
>
> Meng Cheah
>
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