[Novalug] CentOS/Ubuntu

[Paul W. Frields]

On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 14:23 -0800, Beartooth wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Jan 2008, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > Have you thought about using virtualization to run another 
> > Linux simply using free space on your existing Fedora 8 system? 
> > I did this recently with CentOS (and Windows XP for kicks) and 
> > it works just fine.  Now, I do have a 64-bit Intel C2D 
> > processor, but my understanding is that you can get very 
> > respectable results, especially for Linux guest machines, under 
> > most 32-bit and 64-bit workstations.
> 
>  	What I know about virtualization would go in a gnat's 
> eye. Where I start??

See earlier post for some general info.  You can get the most bang out
of virtualization if your machine is somewhat newer and supports
virtualization extensions (AMD processors call this "V" or "SVM," and
Intel calls it "VT").  If I recall correctly, you can read
the /proc/cpuinfo file and look for the "vmx" flag to see if your
processor has these extensions.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Fedora8VirtQuickStart 

That's the document I used to set up my first KVM stuff on this laptop.
However, note that there are references at the very beginning you will
want to follow if you are new to virtualization, so you can understand
the fundamentals.  There's also this one, if you want to use e.g. CentOS
5.1 as your host OS:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/en-US/RHEL510/Virtualization_Guide/ 

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