I've heard reports of the citrix distribution being "Handicapped", so
I'll probably use Debian. Just really surveying VM options at the
moment, we're updating the PE1950 to 8GB ECC with some additional
storage too (currently on 1GB Ram, 80GB).
KVM I will look into too, some reports say it's not too mature yet but
it's worth checking out (I'd actually forgotten about it until you
mentioned it again).
The VM host will need to host windows and linux systems.
Cheers
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Andy Smith<andy@???> wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 02:20:10PM +0100, Peter Brooks wrote:
>> Just wondering what people have experimented about with for Xen base
>> OS, I have a dell Poweredge 1950 that I'm experimenting with. I see
>> two obvious choices as Debian or Xenserver but the citrix website for
>> XenServer doesn't give too much away.
>
> Well Citrix Xenserver is its own distribution, so you won't get very
> far looking for details of running it on other distributions and
> avoiding giving them money.
>
> So when using the open source Xen stuff personally I would just use
> whatever distribution I was most familiar with, as Xen works pretty
> much the same on all of them.
>
> But I probably wouldn't use Xen in any new install today. I'd be
> more likely to use KVM if the hardware supported it. I don't know
> if your PE1950 does, or if you have other reasons for settling on
> Xen.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
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