What is a good OS to mess around with Xen Dom0?

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Published on 2010-04-03T05:01:00Z Indexed on 2010/04/03 5:03 UTC
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Hello, I'd like to experiment some with Xen. My problem is I do not know which OS to try to install it with. I use OpenBSD, but it can not run as Dom0 or DomU at this point.

I use Arch Linux on my website's VPS, so I know it and like it. The support for Xen just doesn't seem to be there though.

Can anyone suggest a nice (preferably lightweight, so not SUSE and such) Linux distro or *BSD to mess around with Xen in a non-production environment?

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