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.
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. Good luck -- John Registered Linux User 263680, get counted at http://counter.li.org
