Tracy R Reed wrote:
Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
Now, I don't know what "minimal" means, but Xen struck me as being far
from qualifying as minimal.
I'm not sure what they could really take out that I wouldn't miss as a
feature.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls -la /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-xen
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1478167 2007-06-13 22:33 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-xen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls -la /boot/xen-3.0.2.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 246927 2006-04-09 18:38 /boot/xen-3.0.2.gz
At least it is only 17% the size of my fully modularized Linux kernel.
Linux guys love the kernel size game.
Okay, now include the userland that Xen requires that you keep around
along with things that require workarounds like mounting the install CD
via loopback NFS because you need special block drivers for Xen but
*only have them for Linux*.
Xen is fine for Linux in Linux (but only for certain favored flavors).
Nothing else.
Yes, I'm grouchy about this. And, yes, I'm slagging on Xen. Somebody
needs to offset the hype. Xen promises much and delivers far less.
The problem is that Xen has left the realm of open source and is now
firmly in the realm of marketechture.
-a
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