From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Rychter Subject: Newbie questions Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 13:32:29 -0800 Sender: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Errors-To: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org --=-=-= I've just started looking at Xen and I have some questions. These are all fairly basic, as there is preciously little overview documentation (most of it seems to be fairly detailed). First of all, I'm coming from an UML (User-Mode Linux) and VMware background. I'm using UML for a number of things, and I'm generally happy with it, except for the performance and lack of suspend/resume functionality. My questions: -- as I understand, Xen *requires* running a custom kernel, it isn't just a user-level application like UML or VMware? -- if yes, is it reasonable to expect that a patched (customized for a laptop) kernel that includes swsusp2 and encryption (among other things) will be able to support Xen? -- is Xen at all suitable for the following usage scenario: a laptop host, with frequently changing networking, software suspend (via swsusp2), Xenolinux without real-world networking (e.g. host<->Xenolinux communication only)? I'd appreciate any advice. thanks, --J. --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBAY0/tLth4/7/QhDoRAqOiAKDFe1DuCQqlzSZnIWZmJaoyd4vQUACgntwR +ymxHAojLrOuXmiBen39cdc= =ReLH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=-- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click