On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 03:07:56PM -0400, Nicholas Wheeler wrote: > Think of xen as running OSes "side-by-side", with one OS more equal than the > other. Then think of vmware as a heirarchy, with your guest OS's resources > way below that of your master OS. Xen will obviously allow the two OSes to > have more equal access to the hardware resources, and won't provide a > virtualization-bottleneck that is seen with vmware. Once the technologies > develop, I'm pretty sure Xen (or xen-like programs) are the future. The good > thing about VMWare though, is if an image of your server works under VMWare > on one computer, it'll work on VMWare on any computer, whereas your server > under Xen will need to support the actual hardware (with drivers, etc), just > as much as your master OS has to.
With VMWare and VMotion, I can understand the idea of how you can walk up to your rack, rip the cables out of a machine, and have the virtual machines be seamlessly moved to other machines. How does that work with Xen, if it's a "side by side" thing? How does Xen interact across hardware, rather than on it? -- *********************************************************************** * John Oliver http://www.john-oliver.net/ * * * *********************************************************************** -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
