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From: J G Miller on 28 Jan 2010 10:46
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:15:10 +0000, Rahul wrote:

> Thus each of the dinosaur-masters is still happy that his
> data is accessable and transparantly.

If they only need to read/write to the data files, why do you
not make them available as files in SAMBA shares from a
GNU/Linux Samba Server?
From: General Schvantzkoph on 31 Jan 2010 11:42
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:15:10 +0000, Rahul wrote:

> I usually work with Linux but unfortunately got handed down this Windoze
> task by my boss and am trying to make it as painless as possible. I'm
> hoping Linux might again come to the rescue!
>
> Goal: We had several dinosaur Win-PCs that need to be junked. But they
> have useful data on them. The guys who "own" the data are offsite used
> to remote logging in at infrequent intervals.
>
> My idea was to take a beefy server and install something like Xen,
> VMWare etc. and then just run many instances of WinXP on top each with
> one guys data. Thus each of the dinosaur-masters is still happy that his
> data is accessable and transparantly.
>
> [Yes, a "true" multi user OS is the elegant solution but I'd rather play
> with Xen than some slow, buggy, unfamiliar server edition of Win....]
>
> Any comments on the idea? Is Xen the right tool? Or VMWare etc? Should I
> be running Xen natively or on top of a Linux distro. Never done this
> before so was looking for some advice.

I prefer KVM, it's performance is a little better then VMware and it's
part of the Linux kernel, the others all require patches. However for
your task you might prefer VMware because of their migration tool. They
have a nifty program that you can install on your existing Windows boxes
that will produce a VM clone of the system. All you have to do is run the
program and then copy the resulting VMs over to your new server and
you'll have exact duplicates of the old systems.
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