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I finally sat down and took a stab at getting Xen going on my laptop. As this entry’s title may have lead you to believe, it didn’t go particularly well.

I was pretty excited to have an army of virtual machines that were suited to kernel development. Especially after foolishly wasting time working with some machines at work that I knew weren’t up to the task.

The User’s guide got me in the mood. The Fedora wiki also has a helpful Quick start page.

I installed the RPMs, rebooted, and ran immediately into an existing bug. I tried Rik’s newer Xen RPMs for FC4 and they did much better. X started up and things were going pretty well. Then it tried to talk to the network and the screen went blank and the machine was dead. Dang.

I guess it’s not quite as polished as I was hoping. I imagine it might be fun, of a sort, to hook up a serial console and debug it with some Xen guys. I’ll get right on that just after my employer stops demanding my services in exchange for letting me funnel their money to the bank that holds our mortage.