Sharninder wrote: > Yes, I've used xen and vmware and both have served me equally well. > Use vmware if you want the commercial support in a heavily loaded data > center. Use xen if you can handle the support yourself or can depend > on the community.
imho, thats not true at all. You can get plenty of Vendor and implementation neutral support for Xen these days - much more so than vmware. Also, you get very well integrated Xen tools with most distro's which you dont get with vmware at all. There are some vmware products worth using - but on the small to medium end of the markets, vmware is today a waste of time. If you have anything short of $60,000 to spend on your Virt budget, I'd highly recommend you give vmware a miss. > In performance both are compareable and currently, Not true again, in most real world applications Xen beats vmware ( for me ) both in performance and cost benefits. And in some cases, like mass hosting openvz might be a better setup than both Xen and VMware. > IMO, vmware has a lead in providing better management features with > the VI3 line. If you're looking to install a virtualisation software > on top of a linux distro, then your choice is between vmware > workstation or a xen patched kernel. ummm... perhaps you didnt get the memo, but Linux now includes several layers of Virt foo, besides - most Distro and platform vendors ship and support Xen (atleast). > There are other virtualisation solutions also including kvm, lguest > all of which should serve you well for the usual test cases. In the > end your choice would depend on your use case and requirements. btw, my opinion is based on Linux hosting Linux VM's - the moment you go hybrid on OS platforms, things change quite dramatically. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
