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
