Let's start at the beginning. My $job switches from one vpn to another. The 'nother doesn't have a client for Linux. At first I thought it would be amusing to write my own client but after some brief investigation decided I really don't need another hard task right now. So I decide to just run a virtual instance of XP. I very much respect RedHat and tried their current favorite, KVM. It doesn't work on my hardware. :-( So then I spend about 15 hours trying to get Xen to work. No luck. Every step is a chore and I'm just not in... ... read more >>> newmag.wordpress.com