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Re:Virtualization: good idea for startups? by nailer on Sunday September 16, 2007 @11:33PM (#55518)
Anyone know a good Xen configuration tool? There doesn't seem to be a good equivalent of say, VMware Server for Linux.

Don't care whether it's Open source or proprietary, just want something that makes the image creation, starting / stopping, networking and reconfig simple.

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Re:Virtualization: good idea for startups? by SwellJoe on Sunday September 16, 2007 @11:53PM (#55526)
Virtualmin, Inc. has just released a product called VM2 (Virtualmin Machine Manager) into private beta. It manages Xen, Solaris Zones, Linux vzervers, and Amazon EC2 virtualized systems, as well as physical systems, from a central management interface. It's pretty nifty.

It'll be public in a couple of weeks, tops.

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Re:Virtualization: good idea for startups? by mrevelle on Monday September 17, 2007 @12:21AM (#55538)
XenSource released a product called XenCenter that looked similar to the VMWare Server Console. Can watch a demo after signing up to receive their spam: http://www.xensource.com/Pages/XenEnterprise_Demo.aspx

Note that it's written on .NET and is Windows only.

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Re:Virtualization: good idea for startups? by rams on Monday September 17, 2007 @10:24AM (#55673)
crap, I have been using it at work for the last couple of months. The console doesn't refresh correctly and they prob. went the dot-net way to impress microsoft. Then they got bought by Citrix. Overall, I feel that the value-add on top of the open source xen is rather weak, to technically savvy users at least.
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