Alan Lord lord_alan at dsl.pipex.com wrote: > Is this a superior solution (in your opinion) to Xen? I'm interested > because we run some of our hosted services in xen virtual linux servers > and this seems to work pretty well...
I've never used Xen but VS outperforms VMWare with windows clients when the virtual machine additions are installed. It seems VS does less virtualization and allows more instructions to execute directly on hardware than Vmware does. I use windows clients as well as LFS and the performance boost with the machine additions makes VS the solution for me. There is certainly differences in threading between a VS client and preemptive OS/processor. Though I have not done much development on Vmware, recently I worked on a multithreaded app on a VS windows client. The application worked great when running under a virtual machine but crashed consistently when running on physical hardware. I'm curious the mechanism used by MS to emulate task switching in VS, it is certainly not preemptive. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
