Re: Virtualisation / Xen with home-compiled kernel on sid?

[MRH <misiek_spam@o2.pl>]

Victor Padro wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 5:44 PM, MRH<misiek_spam@o2.pl> wrote:
> > Recently I decided to play a bit with MS Windows 7RC on my PC. My main OS at
> > home is Debian sid which I really like and it is a bit bothersome to reboot
> > each time I want to check something on MSWin, I thought about using
> > virtualisation.
> >
> > First I thought about Xen or KVM. I'm a total novice at these things, so
> > it's difficult to decide. What I want is to preserve the system I use
> > (Debian sid amd64), allow starting another one (in a window ?). Ideally I'd
> > like to have Debian as a default system, possibility to dual-boot Windows (I
> > installed MSWin on another hard drive) and use/run that installed MSWin from
> > Debian. Hope it makes sense.
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> I don't know if you checked this site:
> http://www.howtoforge.com/howtos/virtualization
> but it has nice how to's regarding virtualization using Xen and KVM.
> you can also test out virtualbox or vmware server, they are "free".

Thanks, very useful - lots to read. It seems I rather want KVM (or 
VirtualBox).

Kind regards,
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Michal R. Hoffmann