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[Alex Samorukov <samm@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:
> 1) A headless machine with reasonable hardware (~2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo,
> supporting VT-x, e.g. Wolfdale, 2x250 SATA HDDs, 4-8 Gb of RAM, 2 NICs)
>   
VT-x is a must only for non-native xen domains (e.g. windows). For linux 
and bsd its usually better to use domU nodes,
> 3) Reliable Internet connection
>   
I`m able to help with this.
> Then we simply set up CentOS 5 x86_64 as a privileged administrative
> domain (dom0) 
I would recommend Debian for this task. CentOS (RHEL) is too 
conservative and contain to old software ;)
> and a number of minimal installations (w/o X.Org and
> stuff, only complete dev tools, reasonable userland stuff and ssh) as
> domU for the other OSes (Linux, BSD, XP), both i386 and x86_64 using
>   
BSD is very unreliable in XEN environment.
> hardware vitalization. OSes will run at near native speed in terms of
> CPU, 
Only in XEN domU domains.
> I/O will be quite slow, but this is not really a concern.
>   
sure.
> The management can be done using XEN's embedded VNC server (for
> Windows-inclined: read Radmin) for each OS and SSH tunnels for Unix-like
> systems.
>
> I think that ~512 Mb RAM would be more then enough for each of those, so
> 4 Gb gives us 8 OSes to test upon.
>
>   
For linuxes you may limit menory to 256, it will more than enough in 
x-less configuration
> I don't have prior experience with XEN, but I have been administrating
> ~5 CentOS boxes for the past few years, and it's a very admin-friendly
> distribution that comes with lots of prepackaged and pre-configured
> stuff, so I can somehow help to set things up in my spare time...
>
>   
I have many XEN installations around, i`m using it mostly for VoIP 
related tasks (asterisk hosting, etc.), so i am able to help with this.