playing with xen
Posted by Ian Holsman
I got a new dev machine (a quad-core 4G box, with 500G disk running centos5) during the week, and took the opportunity to play with xen.
Once you get the hang of it, creating new linux instances is quite easy. I’ve actually got my main host running in a little instance where i just port forwarded port 80 through to it. (as I don’t have any spare IP’s)
I just wish ‘virtmanager’ had a native mac build, I found using x over VNC a PITA and it just didn’t work sometimes.
To make matters worse, the new longhorn beta DVD uses UDF instead of iso9660, and I can’t figure out how to get xen to recognize it either.
the main aim of the dev box was to get 10-15 machines up and running so I can play with things like hadoop, and replication things, and test out monitoring stuff.