Safe Computing Practice: Running Windows Virtual Machines

• enming-teo

  30 Jul 09, 02:54

  I am running Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2003 inside a Linux host operating system using the open source Xen hypervisor.
  
  To implement Xen-based virtualization, I have to download, compile and install Xen 3.4.1 hypervisor and tools, and Jeremy's paravirt operations enabled Dom 0 Kernel 2.6.30.
  
  Installation of Xen and Dom 0 kernel is from source code.
  
  The host operating system of choice is OpenSUSE Linuz 11.1.

   

• Forbiddensinner

  30 Jul 09, 10:48

  Originally posted by enming-teo:

  Next time please post similar threads here : http://www.sgforums.com/forums/2250

• FireIce

  30 Jul 09, 11:33

  wanna be mod?

• candiz

  30 Jul 09, 14:50

  so cheem

• EarlNeo

  30 Jul 09, 17:32

  still duno wat TS wanna tell us....

• ndmmxiaomayi

  30 Jul 09, 21:05

  TS is saying that virtualization is good for protecting your computers. How true that is, I don't know. There's a lot of debate on this, and is getting too technical that I can no longer understand.

  Some reading - http://kerneltrap.org/OpenBSD/Virtualization_Security

• R3SsH|n

  30 Jul 09, 23:13

  correct me if i am wrong.

  virtualization helps u save up on computer resources which in TS case the resource need to run 3 os on the metal will be too much for the system to take. instead virtualization gives u all the features of the os, but does not take away as much resources.

• ndmmxiaomayi

  1 Aug 09, 10:15

  Computer resources as in hardware? Yes, it can. Otherwise, you will be buying 3 PCs if you need all of them to be up at the same time.

  I don't know of any ways that you can do multi-boot in the same session in the same PC without some form of virtualization.

  But on the software side, it will definitely have some impact on the resources usage of the host OS. Depending on the type of virtualization implemented, they will have different impact.

  If you implement VMWare or other VM software, it will take up quite a lot of resources. Something like Xen hypervisor will not have the same impact.