Xen to the rescue
Jul 21st, 2007 by Kostas Georgiou
The fan at my shuttle at home died last week so the temperature inside the case reached around 65C and the disk drive couldn’t cope with it. So I moved the disk on my desktop and now the machine is running as a domU in xen. Surprisingly no problems so far beyond mplayer stuttering every time munin runs in domU (every five minutes). Time to play with xen scheduling I guess or upgrade my cpu to a dual core one. I don’t think I’ll bother replacing the fan in the shuttle box with only a socket 775 cpu there isn’t much use for it really.
