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Robin Cornelius wrote: > On 7/7/06, Kai Hendry <hendry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Xen looks like the best. Though I haven't used it except for some live >> CD test. http://www.debian-administration.org/?search=xen&go=Go > > Xen does indeed look good but comments about it requires a modified > kernel to run are concerning. I need *very* new kernels for my > development. We rely on the dscape 802.11 stack that is only present > in wireless-dev .git tree. Or can be patched into kernels >-2.6.16 i > must look into this to get more details but it could cripple my plans. VMware comes with a set of precompiled kernel modules for commonly-used kernels, plus source for the same which the installer recompiles if required. With very recent kernels however, they don't always compile cleanly and non-VMware patches are required to get things working, so you may not actually be that much better off. James -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html