Greetings all,

Xen 2 is now getting a lot of attention as this free 'emulator' performs better than most if not all of it's free & commercial counterparts (VmWare, Qemu, etc....) The only drawbacks are : the linux kernel has to be patched to be able to support Xen & there's a little (less than 5%) performance drop. But the performance benchmarks are so promising that an emulated system should work almost as fast as the real one.
Already some distributions (Suse & Fedora, Gentoo & probably more) are shipping with Xen 2 support.

The benefits of having an alternate kernel with Xen support is obvious so i hope Knoppix will soon provide this

More info can be found here http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG...xen/index.html