I have yet to upgrade to v3 of xen, but v2 xen is good provided you dont do to much IO, as duel tar.gz XEN installs while running one or more xen image has caused kernel instability in my experiance. I think xen is the future, I think your expected fee's are too high and could only be justified by promising some ISP grade bandwith.
Sorry to poor water on the fire, but xen is good but day to day constent use shows IO is still a little unstable so its not rearly ready for production like RHES or debian stable.
Have fun and good luck
Regards
Owen
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 20:07:53 +0100 Darren darren@darrencasey.co.uk wrote:
Andy Trevor wrote:
On Wednesday 26 April 2006 07:27, MJ Ray wrote:
Martyn Drake martyn@drake.org.uk
contemplating using VMWare Server to "partition" the machine up
into =20 >> several segments and rent out a Linux virtual server for those =20 >>
I suggest considering Xen if the hardware and application permits. Seems to have a lot less overhead and is really quite popular.
I second this. It takes a bit of work to get right but once done it rocks.
This link can get you going in about 5 minutes. http://www.option-c.com/xwiki/Xen
We are already testing the latest and greatest, and been offering the above setup (with some mods) to a few existing customers.
Its worked really well, I have used it on a few DNS machines to split up the DNS/mail backups etc..
With rackprices having shot up recently its perfect (Although power has gone up as well so the dual processor machines dont look so good now)
Darren
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