How To Use Xen Virtualization ; Chips For Virtualization

[Robert L Cochran]

John Pierce wrote:
>> Question 1
>>
>> Currently, I just boot F7 with the xen kernel, running Domain-0 and I go
>> my merry way logging in as myself and installing software, doing email,
>> etc. But I wonder if this is accepted practice? Or should I be
>> installing F7 again a second time as a guest OS and doing user and
>> development stuff under that?
>
> If you do any heavy development you will probably be wise to do that
> in a vm, it will completely isolate any problems from the main system.
> That it the beauty of virtual machines.
>
I as able to install the Fedora 7 guest OS just now. I'm at last seeing 
the light. I will reinstall Fedora 7 from scratch, this time doing a 
pretty minimal Xen system installation, then installing guest OS'es 
sized the way I want and with the applications I want. But it looks like 
I'll eventually need to buy a better processor and motherboard to get 
full virtualization.

Even so, this is pretty neat! I was just asking on the fedora-xen 
mailing list how to make the guest console bigger.

Bob


>> Question 2
>>
>> My AMD Athlon 64 chip listed above doesn't support full virtualization
>> e.g. there is no 'svn' in the /proc/cpuinfo flags.  I have this chip
>> installed in an Asrock 939SLI32-eSATA2 motherboard. Can anyone suggest a
>> new processor I can buy which supports full virtualization? I'd prefer
>> an AMD processor and I could replace the motherboard. The Asrock board
>> is rock solid -- I love it -- but I could replace it.
>>
> First a note, if you are grepping for the amd flag for virtualization
> then you need to look for svm not svn.
>
> I have an ASUS M2NPV am2 with a dual core 3800 and the asus system is
> rock solid.  It is my mythtv backend with two 160 GB sata drives
> connected and 2GB of dual channel ram.  I run windows xp in a vm and
> am satisfied with the performance.
My typo, sorry.



>
> Good luck