Re: xen or xen-vserver - difference?

Hello,

On 30-08-2007, askxuefeng <askxuefeng@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 30-08-2007, Frank <josephbeuys@xxxxxx> wrote:
What the differece between this packages?

xen-linux-system-2.6.18-5-xen-686 - XEN system with Linux 2.6.18 image
on i686
xen-linux-system-2.6.18-5-xen-vserver-686 - XEN system with Linux
2.6.18 image on i686



XEN is a patch on the linux kernel to enable running linux as domX vserver
is a patch on the linux kernel to create vserver in linux (sort of super
chroot).

-xen-686 is a package with only the first patch
-xen-vserver-686 is a package with the two patches

Have a look at :
http://linux-vserver.org/
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/xen/

(in fact xen+vserver is a proof of concept that you can build a kernel
with this two patches)

Regards,
Sylvain Le Gall

if i want to install xen on debian and make windows xp as guest operating
system, which packages should i install?
i saw someone said:
xen-linux-system-2.6.8-5-xen-686
libc6-xen
bridge-utils
xen-tools
xen-ioemu-3.0.3-1

but i don't know what these packages use for.


Unfortunately, i stop using xen because it doesn't fit my need and was
not as flexible and lightweight as vserver is (but you can run
only linux distribution inside this kind of super chroot).

Using my ancient memory, i can try to guess something:
- xen-linux-system-2.6.8-5-xen-686: the kernel
- libc6-xen: the libc6 you need to use with the kernel above
- bridge-utils: what you need to create bridged network to make
domU/dom0 communicate through a kind of network
- xen-tools: some utils to manage xen
- xen-ioemu: tools to use the Intel VT technologies (but i never use it,
so it is really a guess)

I think, all this packages are mandatory.

Take a look at:
http://wiki.debian.org/Xen
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Xen

Regards,
Sylvain Le Gall


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