[ale] server virtualization

Jim Popovitch jimpop at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 6 19:21:32 EDT 2006


Jim Philips wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 June 2006 19:08, Jim Popovitch wrote:
>> I've been a long time VMWare fan (still am!), but I only have used
>> VMWare to run local development/test systems on my PC.  I have a new
>> need to run a completely remote virtual system inside an existing
>> system.  The host system is Debian Sarge.  Is there anything in the
>> Debain tree that allows for virtualizing one server inside another?
>> Specifically I would like to run a RH9 system on the Debian host.
> 
> Couldn't you accomplish that with Xen?

I don't think so, although I don't know for sure.  I always thought that 
Xen was virtualization of the same kernel as the host.  Essentially 
virtual user systems, but not complete hosts (i.e. a second system with 
it's own kernel).

-Jim P.



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