From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Derrik Pates Subject: Re: Xen on any linux Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:10:27 -0500 Message-ID: <41EEE8E3.4020509@devrandom.net> References: <000001c4fe7a$577c84e0$05039943@COMPAQXP> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1250; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <000001c4fe7a$577c84e0$05039943@COMPAQXP> Sender: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Chris Schmidt Cc: xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Chris Schmidt wrote: > I have a system running an older version of United Linux by SCO and > using Tarantella 3.34 and Samba on it. I was wondering if I could > install Xen on it, and still keep all my United Linux apps working, and > the Tarantella Server and Samba etc. Or would I need to install a > supported linux distro, the reinstall my United Linux on it? So long as it has the stuff that's needed (python, python devel package, python-twisted, iproute2, bridge utils, curl devel package, zlib devel package, etc.), and you can install and boot from a Xen-ified domain 0 kernel, yes. I never used UL, so I don't know if it has all the things that are required. > Looks like a really neat program, but I am not grasping how it works. It's not a "program" per se, in that it doesn't run on top of Linux; Xen itself is a "hypervisor", or a supervisor for supervisors, that lets you partition a machine into several virtual machines and run specially-modified Linux kernels (or NetBSD, or FreeBSD, or Plan9) in each. The programs that run in domain 0 just control the Xen hyperkernel, telling it what to do. -- Derrik Pates demon@devrandom.net ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl