Fill Linux to the Brim with Xen  Virtualization is hot, and
newcomer Xen should be on your radar.  By Carla Schroder | Feb
1, 2006 Print ArticleEmail Article   • Share on Facebook   •
Share on Twitter   • Share on LinkedIn  The flood of inexpensive
x86 PC hardware that overwhelmed the computing world seduced us
into accumulating coveys of cheap little single-purpose servers
and unmanageable gaggles of desktops and workstations. We
sysadmins have been paying for it ever since. Instead of having
small herds of nice docile mammoths to supervise, we got roped
into running large herds of cats. But, as is the way of
humanity, the pendulum has swung, the circle has turned, the
karma has paid off and good old-fashioned client-server
computing is teh hawt again.  The current rage is virtualization
which, of course, is nothing new — as old-timers raised on the
IBM's Virtual Machine (VM) OS and Logical Partitioning (LPAR)
will attest. These let you run guest operating systems on a
single (expensive IBM) machine, each in