Virtualization

I have Fedora 7 on an AM2 dual core system. I've been doing alot with VMware Server and have owned VMware Workstation since 2.0. One of the issues with VMware is reinstalling every time the kernel is updated. Add to that the fact that VMware has only precompiled for certain kernels on certain distribution releases. *sigh*

So I decided to try out the qemu-kvm stuff in Fedora. Fedora 7 has a GUI manager for Xen and (I think qemu-kvm).

To make a long story short, qemu is easy except for the networking. I keep everything on the file server and nothing on my clients so I need networking. The GUI doesn't reveal anything about the networking and doesn't quite work with qemu yet. All the documentation I've Googled say 'qemu is in Fedora 7' but all of the networking stuff is written up for earlier versions.

No problems, except the virt manager sets up some networking stuff. And isn't documented. And uses different names from the older examples.

*sigh* So I punted and installed VMware server. There's a patch for the install that will let you compile the module for any kernel. Joy! And it works. It'd be nice if VMware included it or linked to it on the web.

In any event, I've got XPpro running in a VM. I can RDP into it from my laptop and run things like cbreak to cut commercials out of .TiVo streams after I convert 'em to mpg.