Thanks to the work of Radu Spineanu my xen-shell has now hit Debian's unstable distribution.

There will be a forthcoming release of xen-tools which makes using it even simpler.

I might even make an article on using the two together; although that feels a little too much like self-promotion. That didn't used to bother me so much in the past, but now I guess I have more people reading/commenting so I do try to avoid it.

In other Xen-news I got xen + NFS roots working properly last night - so that made me happy.

I should probably think about moving some of my internel xen systems to using it, to see how well it works out, but no real rush.

I tend to have only three instances running at any time:

• cfmaster.my.flat
  • A local CFEngine server with a small configuration tree to manage my machines
• builder.my.flat
  • Sarge machine for backports.
• Scratch.my.flat
  • Random scratch machine, gets refreshed every night.

More would be nice, but not required unless I have a real use for them..