[afnog] Some cool bits and pieces

[Phil Regnauld]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 11:49:24AM +0000, Brian Candler wrote:
> > 
> > 	http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/
> 
> Hmm.. that lets you run Windows under Unix, but does it let you run Unix
> under Windows? I can't see any Windows version for download there.

	It's alpha.

> If you just want an emulator that runs on Unix then there are a number of
> other options. Xen is pretty cool; you can dynamically transfer a
> *running* image from one machine to another, with downtime of just a few
> hundred milliseconds. Main limitation is that you must run a customised
> version of the hosted O/S to be able to talk to Xen's device drivers.

	Yeah, I'm following Xen.  Looking forward to host support.

> However, it would be quite possible to run a workshop with one Xen server
> running a dozen FreeBSD hosts, and have people ssh and/or VNC into their own
> virtual machine from Windows.

	Definitely an idea.