[K12OSN] Xen in FC5...what does this mean for us?

[cliebow at downeast.net]

Hey Chris..hows it going! no complaints here..chuck
> David Trask wrote:
> 
> >Hey folks....
> >
> >I see now that XEN virtualization is built in to Fedora Core 5.....I'm
> >curious as to folks ideas and suggestions on how this can be leveraged 
to
> >help us in K12LTSP......ideas?   Thoughts?
> >  
> >
> XEN has low overhead, but I don't see how it could improve what LTSP 
> does for providing applications to end-users.
> 
> The best use I can think of for XEN in an educational environment would 
> be on a server hosting guest linux machines for each student or team of 
> students to be root and learn linux sysadmin skills.  Each XEN guest 
> machine would be a sandbox a student could break, that could be restored 
> by copying a base guest system image file, without impacting other 
> students.  And it would not require dedicating a computer to each 
> student or team to provide them that isolation.
> 
> Chris
> 
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