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Running Xen3.0 Demo CD in VMware Workstation!



Call me lazy but I'm still too scared (of my wife) to install a Linux Variant on the Laptop. Anyways so I go ahead and run the Demo CD.

From the Horse's mouth...

Industry leading open source hypervisor virtualization technology. Xen 3 provides features required for servers deployed in today's enterprise. Supports Intel VT, 32-way SMP, PAE, and 64 bit addressing.


So here are some shots at it.



Here you see Xentop tool with the commands such as Delay, Network, etc. Try them!




Here I type the command to start Centos4.1 XenOS

As you see the Xentop console seems the tarryxen!



Booting up...




Centos4.1 in VMware Centos4.1!



And this is Debian...

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