OS On Xen
i had set my mind on trying out xen but then problems accured...
had decided to use centos, and thought that it would work. but it wont accept it.
is redhat, suse and debian the only supportet linux distro´s with xen? or is there someway to have centos work with it?
would prefer not having to use a fortune on an OS license, that was the why I choose centos in the first place
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