[SGVLUG] Xen

[Rae Yip]

Matt Campbell has looked into a fair bit of this, though he settled on
using VirtualBox.

As mentioned in the WP article, there are a couple different
chipset/BIOS support features that assist with virtualization. It's a
fairly tricky support matrix, but there's a lot you can do without
hardware support depending on what you're after, so it helps to have a
firm direction in mind be for plunking down a few grand in hardware.

-Rae.

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 1:35 PM, matti <mathew_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I am looking at playing around with XEN and
> read documentation that the BIOS should support
> it. ( I have a nice AMD chip for this.. )
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD-V#AMD_virtualization_.28AMD-V.29
> "Chipset
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> Memory and I/O virtualization is performed by the chipset.[29] Typically, if the BIOS doesn't enable these features, then virtualization software can't use them, which is a common problem."
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> Anyone have any experience with this?
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> I am still looking to see which MB/chipset would support Xen,
> and attempting to find a list of chipsets which work with
> this.
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> Thanks
> matti
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