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Tuesday, July 5th, 2005

Xen Zen

Xen is pretty cool -> it’s an x86 hypervisor technology that allows you to boot multiple OSs in a virutal machine similar to UML and VMware… Red Hat, Sun, and others have decided to support it already – Microsoft has decided it can do better on it’s own version of a hypervisor and so far won’t be using Xen… Here’s a great article showcasing what it can do. Visit Xensource’s site to download it – I’ll warn you it’s a tricky install if not supported by your distro.