[ale] server virtualization

[James P. Kinney III]

On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 22:40 -0400, Chris Ricker wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> 
> > 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).
> 
> No, the domU and dom0 definitely can be different kernels. For an extreme 
> example, think about the fact that you can run Windows XP in domU and 
> Linux 2.6 in dom0

Yes. The important kernel is only the main host kernel. The virtual
kernels can be anything supported by that architecture. I don't think a
ppc kernel can be hosted on a x86 kernel system (yet!) As the hosted
kernel is entirely chrooted (and can support hardware not on the host
system) the virtual system can be another distro.

That said, the vmware esx server does what you're trying to do (albeit
for a large chunk of change).
> 
> later,
> chris
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