Virtual machine software for Fedora testing?

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Fri Feb 24 16:41:11 UTC 2006


Once upon a time, Nigel Metheringham <nigel.metheringham at dev.intechnology.co.uk> said:
> Xen is a para-virtualisation system - the virtualised system/os needs to
> built in a way that is appropriate for virtualising.  This means that
> you are (currently) unable to use xen for running windows images or even
> installing older (non xen aware) versions of Linux.

Not entirely true: with new versions of Xen combined with certain CPUs
(Intels today, AMDs some time this year), you can have full
virtualization.  People are running Windows along side Linux.

There's a higher overhead in running that way, so it is preferred to run
with a Xen-aware OS.

Also note: I haven't tried this myself yet.
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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
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