I have been playing around with Xen for the past week and it’s always interesting to see Free Software/Open Source alternatives to products like VMWare or Virtual PC. So far I have been able to install Edgy as an domU inside a Feisty dom0 on a file-based disk image. It’s unnecessarily complicated to setup initially but once you get into it, it’s pretty simple. Unfortunately, I don’t have the hardware needed to run Xen in full virtualization mode. Full virtualization allows the guest OS to run unmodified and requires processor support, which means either IVT (aka Vanderpool) or AMD-V (aka Pacifica) extensions. Right now I’m happy with paravirtualization mode since it’s all I need to be able to perform fault isolation experiments.

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