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Novell To Ship Xen in Next Version of Suse

Posted by Hemos on from the virtual-shipping dept.

daria42 writes "The next version of SuSE, to be shipped in mid-April, will ship with the Xen virtualization software, letting users run multiple versions of the operating system simultaneously, the company said on Thursday. The article says that Red Hat has also begun adding Xen support to Fedora."

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  1. Without Windows, not too helpful... by datastalker · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Of course, I understand the licensing and freedom restrictions about using Windows under such a program, but without being able to use Windows with it, I'm gonna have to stick with VMware.

    I can see the uses for it, but right now, those don't align with what I need, and I suspect that will hold true for many others as well.

    Even still, it's cool technology.

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  2. Re:One of the benefits of xen by Mad+Merlin · · Score: 5, Insightful
    one of the things that xen does also help is running WINE so much better. You might get some incompatibility problems but generally it's much better.

    Also, combined with other code like emulators it can even go further than just virtualizing x86 software.

    How exactly does Linux in a VM run Wine better than Linux not in a VM?

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  3. Re:One of the benefits of xen by Wudbaer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What are you talking about ? Can you elaborate or are you just throwing around some nice sounding phrases ?

  4. Licensing Cost by dduardo · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Does this mean you have to pay extra for each instance of suse you run under Xen?

  5. Slashdot by northcat · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A distro added a package. Why is this being reported on slashdot?

  6. Re:Why? by LWATCDR · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Lets you try out new distros or OS with ease.
    Allows you to partition a computer into many virtual machines.
    Want to give 10 people there own servers to play with? Just use Xen. Great for ISPs.

    The real question is what do you mean by a "normal" user. Just because you do not have a use for it and you might not does not mean that many people will. I have no use for AIM but I know some people seem to.

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  7. Linux Licensing by nurb432 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    True, there is no license fee for 'core' Linux, but if you run any of the VAR components of distribution X, there might be some licensing issues.

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