John Oliver wrote:
I cannot yet conceptualize the difference between Xen and VMWare :-) When and why would I want to use one instead of the other?
Xen is a hypervisor. It sits between your kernel and the hardware. GRUB boots the hypervisor (xen) first which then boots Linux. You then log into Linux and use the xm (xen manager) command to talk up to the hypervisor to tell it to create or manage other OS instances which run alongside the first one that got started.
Standard VMWare is just another process running under your host OS which emulates the hardware necessary to run an OS underneath it in a sort of virtual machine. But then there is VMWare ESX which sounds like it may also be a hypervisor approach, I'm not sure. But the standard VMWare that I always see just runs under the host OS and the virtual domains run under it.
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