Re: Xen 3.x with NetBSD 3.x x86-64/64-bits/amd64 Dom0

[Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>]

On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 09:34:48AM +0000, Philip wrote:
> This is disappointing news.

The good news is that NetBSD 4.0_BETA2 support running as Xen3 dom0.

> If I want to run Xen on an old Pentium 3 733Mhz with 512M RAM ...

512MB is not much in Xen land.

> ... am I  better off to run Xen2 with NetBSD Dom0 or Xen3 with a Linux Dom0 ?

You could try NetBSD 4.0_BETA2 as Xen3 Dom0 and NetBSD 3.1 as Xen3 domU.

> The virtual machines will be home mail server, web server, file server 
> with little load on them.

Virtual machine*s*? Running several virtual machines in 512MB won't
allow you to use much memory per domU which could lead to poor
performance.

        Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/