I spent my copious free time this weekend migrating my webserver machine to a Xen session. It was the first time I’d really taken a look at Xen, so things went a little slowly. Now things seem to be working as they should be.

Xen is pretty slick, I have to admit. Out of the virtualizers I’ve played with, like QEMU, vserver, and others, Xen is fairly straightforward. Performance seems pretty good from first glance. The tools is uses seem to work together well. My biggest stumbling block was getting the proper kernel configured for the guest sessions.

Out of this project I gained a good understanding of Xen and how to configure CentOS and Ubuntu Server guests in it. My next step is to migrate my webserver to a Ubuntu server session, which shouldn’t be too hard.

Damn it feels good to be a geek.