On Monday 22 December 2008 15:14:06 Ron Johnson wrote: > I don't know enough about the subject to be able to intelligently > Google, so I thought I'd ask first. > > My system is a fully-kitted out Sid system, and I'd like to > experiment with virtual machines. > > Is this possible, or do I have to start from bare metal? > > -- > Ron Johnson, Jr. > Jefferson LA USA > > I like my women like I like my coffee - purchased at above-market > rates from eco-friendly organic farming cooperatives in Latin America.
Ron, I terms of hypervisors, only Xen will be able to run on your kitted out Sid box (with out re-installing). Using xen (not xen-server) you really need to have a newer cpu for full virtualization and I had a very hard time to get a vm to boot twice in a row. I might be slow, but I even have a book or two. The documentation is sparse, not all up to date. In terms of VMware, ESXi is free (as in beer, not speach) but only runs on a very limited hardware set. In terms of what works with it, google, HCL ESX whitebox. I can tell you a Dell inspiron 530 with a intel Pro dekstop gig nic added works for ESXi. However, you will need a win box to manage it. If you get xen working, come over to my house and instruct me! See package xen-linux-system- -- Damon L. Chesser, VCP da...@damtek.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
