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We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS-5.1 for the i386 and x86_64 Architectures. CentOS-5.1 is based on the upstream release 5.1, and includes packages from all variants including Server and Client. All upstream repositories have been combined into one, to make it easier for end users to work with. And the option to further enable external repositories at install time is now available in the installer.

Originally SXDE 76 has been installed on second partition of first 160 GB SATA drive. First partition of this drive was used by Windows. Attempt to create third partition of type "Solaris2" by Solaris "fdisk" appeared to be useless for creating ZFS pool on x86 system. "format" kept showing two SATA drives ( 2x160 GB) been installed on PC at the time of assembling

The article "Installing Xen On CentOS 5.0 (i386)" by Falko Timme silently presume that you have at least ADSL Internet connection 700 Kb/sec due to following instruction for virt-install command line utility..

Starting with Solaris Express build 75(75a) xVM/Xen are included as a standard part of Solaris Express for x86/x64. Oracle's installation procedure seems to be a kind of evaluation performance and reliability for next generation Solaris Xen Drops running as DomUs on top of Linux Dom 0. Preferably CentOS 5 (RHEL 5) or Debian Etch 4.X .

Command "ipcs -m" appears to be almost useless for getting Oracle 11g shared memory allocation maps. The basic steps for shared memory monitoring and tuning /dev/shm to handle instances with MEMORY_TARGET more then 1024M had been explained in Tanel Poder’s blog. Posting bellow follows advices from Tanel Poder’s blog to build Oracle 11g (64 bit) ASM database with MEMORY_TARGET size 1.2 GB on CentOS 5.

The author shows how to install Windows on a Solaris system.

Installing OpenSUSE 10.3 on the box I selected Xen entry into Grub menu after first phase was completed and system rebooted for final configuration.It brought me into text mode setup very similar graphical one when you select ordinary kernel.

I just have decided , that snapshots of the most recent posts at OpenSolaris Xen Discuss forum would be the best form of advertising regarding upcoming Solaris Xen Drop.

This installation has been done to evaluate OUI (disk I/O) performance on OpenSolaris DomU versus OUI performance on Linux (CentOS 4.5,5.0) HVM VMs on the same box. Difference appears to be very noticeable.

This posting follows up “Install Xen 3.1 Solaris domU (64 bit) at CentOS 5 dom0 (64 bit)” at Lxer.com and gives step by step instruction how to set up VNC on OpenSolaris DomU. In general , everything seems to be already told in OpenSolaris documents.However, I believe that detailed instructions won't be useless at mean time.

In general installation bellow went the same way as in TardisWiki, considering Xen 3.0.3-1 Solaris domU under Debian Etch dom0 (32 bit).
However, several things happened different from described in TardisWiki.
1. Installation didn't hang all way through.
2. To preserve "bootadm update-archive -R /a" work i had to force "umount /a"

I come from a MySQL background, and I have been given the challenge of learning Oracle. I can’t just play around with our customers’ databases.So I decided to install my own Oracle database, which I’ll be free to destroy in every way I can think of… and of course, free to bring it back to life.

Installation has been done to evaluate HVM VM performance. CentOS 5 VM has been tuned exactly as advised at oracle-base.com. 1 GB memory was allocated for VM and it was installed on 16 GB partion (/dev/sdbX) of SATA HDD Seagate Barracuda 160 GB

The target of this posting is to make mentioned installation easy for any person regardless his Solaris Administration experience. Create Solaris HVM VM profile - /etc/xen/vm/Solaris.hvm

This posting is supposed to respond HowToForge's notice that installing Xen 3.1.0 on Debian Etch AMD64, regardless of the method (Xen source install vs. Xen x86_64 binary install) didn't work. Here is how I installed Xen on my Debian Etch 4.0 (amd64) box assembled with Core 2 Duo E6600, ASUS P5B Deluxe, 2 GB RAM (Kingston non ECC) and a SATA HDD Seagate Barracuda 160 GB x 2.

This short guide describes how to install Windows XP or Windows 2003 Server on Xen. It provides an overview of the Debian Linux Etch installation, and detailed steps for installing and configuring Xen and starting the Windows XP or Windows 2003 Server installation.

For a long time I have tested many different virtualization techniques; Xen, VMWare, and Microsoft VM. Until now I’m able to conclude that all of them are usable on my desktop machine, but both VMWare and Microsoft’s VM are more sluggish that Xen. This weekend I deployed my first server based on the upcoming Debian Etch and Xen. Everything worked out of the box.

Attempt to use compiled binaries might fail sooner or later due to hardware issues. Fortunately, 2.6.18-xen kernel does understand the hardware assembled on ASUS P5B Deluxe and Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet in particular. Actually, it means that any board based on (I965+ICH8R) or (I975+ICH7R) would be in general OK for Xen 3.1 Binary installation , but may have trouble with Ethernet Adapter.

RPM's install procedure suggested in http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tools/19338.html still causes SLES 10 GUI procedure creating Xen Windows XP VM to crash.Workaround for this issue follows bellow

I have been looking for a way to replace my old Windows NT machine that I mainly use to run MS Word, Reference Manager and to connect to my Linux desktop via XWin32. I figured if I get one of the new AM2 dual core CPUs from AMD with low energy consumption (35 Watt TDP specified) .