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   Aragorn wrote:   
   > J.O. Aho wrote:   
   >> Aragorn wrote:   
      
   >> Use the VESA driver during install of the Gentoo and then install the   
   >> nVidia driver when all is finished. In your case it may be better to just   
   >> use the VESA until nVidia has released a Xen compatible driver.   
   > It's just that the Live CD   
   > attempted to start up X11 - which I had not expected it to do - and then   
   > went a little crazy on the fact that there is a PCI Radeon card (which   
   > always takes precedence as the primary videocard) and a PCIe GeForce card.   
      
   At least on older machines you could set the primary graphics card in the   
   BIOS, wouldn't surprise me if there is a PCIe/PCI option in your BIOS.   
      
      
   > As for nVidia releasing a Xen-compatible driver - or let us have a wild   
   > dream for a moment: having them open up their source code - that is not   
   > going to happen.  The best they will do is offer a driver that no longer   
   > needs to be patched in order to run it inside a GNU/Linux system in a   
   > Xen /dom0./   
      
   No, they will not open up the source and the majority of distros won't have it   
   as a default driver due the license.   
      
      
   > In addition, I have very little knowledge of iptables and routing, and I'll   
   > have to set up everything using a custom routing table, as I'll only have   
   > one public IP address, but all virtual machines should have access to the   
   > internet.  For /dom0,/ this only need be /ssh/ access, but I might set up   
   > a /ssh/ DMZ inside one of the other virtual machines, so that one   
   > must /ssh/ into that virtual machine first and then from there /ssh/ into   
   > the /dom0./  This is probably the wisest solution. ;-)   
      
   I did setup Xen on a test machine running CentOS, had no need of configuring   
   iptables rules to access internet with domU. Of course if you want to protect   
   ports, you have to do something. I would have recommended you to take a look   
   at FireStarter, but it hasn't been maintained for a while and has some   
   troubles with later kernels and gnome2 libs.   
      
   One of the disadvantages I see is the high load on the domU while making disk   
   access, even if you have dedicated slices for them. I have been thinking of   
   testing KVM instead and see if it's kinder on the load or not, but been too   
   busy with other things.   
      
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     //Aho   
      
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