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Community: VI: ESXi. VirtualBox. TechNet Virtual Labs. All comments owned by their poster. Name: sherman Email: orinoko at gmail dot com Time: 1/7/06 - 21:45:36 I take it that people who have Mobile Centrino chips (like used in the Dell Inspiron 9300) will be left out and cannot use Xen? I was very tempted to do this... I am sick of having a wasted 20gb partition 'dedicated' to xp... Long live Ubuntu. Name: Eric the Red Email: not at home dot com Time: 2/7/06 - 05:58:54 "I haven't tested the stability that heavily because my laptop has a tendency to restart while running Xen. " Yeah, I'd say it isn't very stable then.
Name: Chris Email: chris13610 at yahoo dot co dot uk Time: 2/7/06 - 11:32:41 Followed the install on the HowtoForge.com site, then folowed these instructions. All works up until I type 'xm create winxp'. Spec: Dell 430SC, 512Mb RAM, Pentium D 920, Ubuntu Desktop 64bit Version 6.06, Xen 3.02 Any idea where I should get this file from? Thanks for the howto. Name: Joel Email: Time: 2/7/06 - 17:02:52 Did you install Xen 3.0.2 ? Thanks! Eighty-eight miles per hour » Blog Archive » apt-get install vmware-player. The Lone Sysadmin » Why Even Ask? “I have some questions about the VMware environment you spec’ed out for us.” “Sure, what’s up?” “Well, you suggested a separate server for the management machine, to run VirtualCenter. Couldn’t we run that in VMware itself?”
“I suppose you could, but I think you’d get some chicken-and-egg problems by having the management box inside the managed infrastructure. “So yes, we can.” A big difference between me a year ago and me now is that if people are going to do dumb things against my recommendations I don’t put up much of a fight. “Sure. “Okay, cool. “Well, yeah, but looking at your workload it seemed like three bigger machines were in order.” “Money is a little tight and I thought we could cut some of this out because it didn’t seem necessary.” “I understand, but VMware doesn’t magically make your workloads less intensive, it just lets you manage them better in combination with the hardware. “Okay… extra room… yeah… so do we really need all this storage hardware?”
Whatever, pal. Reducing the size of VMs for portability.