“Tzutzu, we’re not in Kansas any more!”
After several long years in school dedicated to becoming an IT specialist and 2 years of working in multinational firms with no raise I finally decided to take some time off to finish my master degree and perhaps to start a new company where I will certaintly not be promoted.
My current hardware configuration can be found at: Dellnb/StudioXPS16/2.8G/C2D/16HDready/2×2048/320FFS7.2k/ATIHD3670/3yNBD/VistaHomeP-v2 , which is basically a T9600 2,8 GHz, IVT Core 2 Duo processor with 4Gb DDR3 memory and 320Gb SATA hard-drive and HD3670 Radeon video board.
The current configuration comes with a Vista Home Professional system, and my intention is to install a Xen hypervisor with a Ubuntu Dom0 2.6.18 modified kernel with Xen patches, to move my Windows system to a DomU Guest, with most of the PCI devices directly assigned to it and to have another DomU Linux Centos(Rhel5) system, no X server, for my Linux development needs as I intend to use the Windows system for my GUI needs (including remote source editing on my Linux DomU box). I do not want to use the Dom0 system directly for security resons since tampering with this system can lead to crashing the physical machine. The windows hypervisor guest partiton will be a fully virtualized machine, using the IVT features of the processor and will basically run in a Qemu process in the Dom0 Linux while the DomU Linux partition will be a paravirtualized guest directly calling hypervisor services through the hypercall shared memory page.