Re: virtual machines

[Steve Block <scblock@ev-15.com>]

On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 01:25:56AM +0100, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a test machine, on wich I use to package and test packages.
> I package both for Fedora and for Debian.
> For the moment, I use multiboot.
>
> But I am tired to reboot each time I want to switch distribution.
> I intend to buy some amount of RAM and then try to use virtual machine.
> I really begin on that subject. I never did||setup "virtual machines".
> I would like to run Debian (unstable or testing) as "layer" and then run
> the virtual machine on top of it, and then have one virtual Fedora and
> one virtual Debian so that I can compile and switch from one to another
> without having to reboot.
>
> What virtual machine would work well on a Debian (Wen? Qemu?...)? whith
> a well intergrated Debian package, and a howto espacially for Debian...
>
> Thank you for any idea.

I would happily recommend using Xen for this. Make your debian system 
the host (dom0) system, and then have a debian system and a fedora 
system running inside that. I did this a while back just for the fun of 
it and it worked extremely well. Much nicer than UML in my experience.

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