Finally, a world-class hypervisor – XenServer from Citrix is available for free business usage. I didn’t believe Citrix will be offering XenServer for free including Live motion and other features. Fully supported Windows and Linux OSes under 64-bit as well as 8 virtual CPUs! Very nice platform for virtualization and it doesn’t cost a dollar! It’s free. Use it!
Recently I bought another hard drive and had to add it to my current working workstation that is powered by Windows XP.
I didn’t had a fdisk utility or any other commercial disk management software so I used built in Windows XP disk management utility called diskmgmt.msc
You can run it from Start -> Run -> diskmgmt.msc <hit enter>
And from there you can add partitions and of course format the drive. Good luck and I hope this small howto paper helps someone.
Everyone is buzzing around virtualization and private servers these days. One of the most popular platform for server virtualization is XEN – it’ s very efficent, FREE, reliable and has a big community behind it. There are many folks that use it and even commercial providers use XEN in their commercial virtualization products. Xen is used as a base on Novell SLES XEN, Oracle VM, Citrix XenServer (they bought XEN actually), Virtual Iron it’ s been very stable and with high performance.
So if you want to test Windows or Linux distributive use Xen – it works on 32 or 64 bit platforms without any problems and the performance is very close to native OS performance running on a dedicated hardware. Some people report performance gains when XEN is used to virtualize multiple OSes under one physical hardware. Anyway, we have been testing XEN and running it in web hosting environment and it’s really great. It’ s a real virtualization platform you can trust and use for production hosting environment.
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