Re: [Xen-users] New Install Planning

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ray,

ray@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>  My goeal is to multiple video, NIC ports, and SATA ports all 
> isolatable. I do not intend to address paravirtualization. I wonder 
> about usig SSD for dom0 and possibly another SSD for one guest. ray 
Well... when I asked about your goal, I was sort of more asking why you 
were trying to virtualize, and under what context.
All you've said so far is:
> My intent is to build a machine for running daily tasks and 
> experimenting with applications on VMs to facilitate testing and 
> manage configurations.  Some of these VMs will be running, not heavily 
> loaded, while doing daily tasks.
> I would like to have bootable disk for a Windows OS, a Debian, and a 
> Xen.  I expect to mainly use the Xen and perform daily activities in a 
> VM.  The other two bootable partitions would be as backups.
and
> I plan to buy hardware to match.  I am expecting an AMD 4 core and an
> ASUS motherboard.
The important questions are more like:
- Is this going to be a desktop machine or a server?
- What kind of daily tasks are you talking about?  Word processing, 
spreadsheets, and powerpoints? Video editing? Gaming? Database serving?  
It kind of matters.
- Which is your primary environment - Windows or Linux?
- What kinds of applications and configurations are you planning on 
experimenting with? and what's the purpose of that experimentation?  Are 
you doing formal evaluation for an employer, or is this more of a "I 
want to play with this stuff" kind of thing?
- Which is more important to you - daily tasks, or the experimentation?




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