On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 12:55:56AM -0700, Tracy R Reed wrote: > -----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.
I cannot yet conceptualize the difference between Xen and VMWare :-) When and why would I want to use one instead of the other? -- *********************************************************************** * John Oliver http://www.john-oliver.net/ * * * *********************************************************************** -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
