the zen of xen

I have started fooling around with Xen again. I installed Xen inside a debian VMWare workstation instance.

VMWare-> Debian_(Xen0)-> 2xDebian_(XenU)

It was a bit slower, but not too bad.

I was mostly doing some feasibility testing, and learning, to see if I can use Xen to run a few subserver instances on my dedicated server. An attempt to put that thing to work, yet still have some very nice privilege seperation. I only have one ip address allocated, so it will be a bit strange of a setup, but who knows..maybe it will prove useful.

I have run up against a slight brick wall. Xen networking is.. weird. I haven't quite grok'ed it yet. Oh, I can get it to work just fine, but getting a virtual network segment to connect two instances to each other, or having more than one XenU instance behind a single Nat. These are the things I have yet to discover how to appropriately implement.

That is about it for now. Stay tuned.