-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Lan Barnes wrote: > Any youse guys using Xen? Anyone willing to compare it with VMWare? > > How does Xen stack up as an alternative to a dual boot?
I have been using it for a year. Xen is para-virtualization, VMware is full virtualization. Xen will be faster but requires modified guest OS unless you have a new Intel/AMD cpu which supports virtualization in which case it will run any x86 OS. Xen rocks. I am moving my entire company to Xen. CPU's are vastly underutilized running just one OS instance per box. We expect to be able to reduce our overall machine count over the next year (saving power and datacenter space) while continuing to grow the business. And Xen's ability to migrate running virtual machines from one physical box to another with no downtime (requires a SAN such as AoE, iSCSI, fibrechannel) it should greatly increase our availability as well. If you are dual-booting between Linux and Windows Xen won't do it for you unless you have a new cpu that supports the virtualization extensions. You will also have to choose which OS you want to have the graphical console (the other you will have to access through vnc or some similar hack) because they haven't virtualized it yet but that is coming. - -- Tracy R Reed http://ultraviolet.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFHNGM9PIYKZYVAq0RAqpyAJwOZI2qSRRR/2LH/bkjVKeZMZxNpgCfRLB2 cInBaGIPacSVZTmETY78+sY= =U5oZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
