[Xen-users] first time w/ XEN - Looking for some advise

[Charlie Reddington <charlie.reddington@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I have a server that I can use to work with XEN on. It's a dell  
poweredge 1950, 64 bit 2.6ghz, single quad core cpu. Has about 2 GB of  
ram, and 1XX GB in a raid 5 setup.
I've been reading and trying to gather what is the best way to set  
this up. My questions....
1.) What's the best say to setup the Raid for this? Is Raid 5 Ideal?  
(I have a 4 disk setup - currently 3 disks are part of the raid 5 w/ 1  
being a hotspare).
2.) What is the communities take on using CentOS 5 - x86_64 for the  
base OS?  Is there anything that the base install really needs? I  
generally try to shy away from installing Gnome/KDE/X on my servers as  
to reclaim some resources, but the idea of having a GUI to install  
this stuff would make things more simple I would think.
3.) I've read about having a separate LVM for the virtual machines and  
one for your OS. Is this really the best way? I understand the reason  
for the LVM, so you can add more storage as you need it, but do you  
really need two?
4.) My last question for now is , if your running an x86_64 system,  
are you limited to running only 64 bit OS's or like any machine you  
can still install x86 with no problems?
Thank you for any help,

Charlie

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