While you're right that it *should* be ran on baremetal, the ability to run a single backup domain controller as a guest on an OF box would go a long way towards value-add for SMBs which would vault OF above Windows Storage Server R2 in value since WSSR2 is locked down to not run as a Domain Controller. Once could load Virtual Server 2005 R2 on it but it doesn't come ready to run out of the box and certainly doesn't run at the efficiency level of a Xen hypervisor on a VT-enabled processor.
Your rebuttle to Les' claim that VMWare is "actually working now" vs Xen is more than warranted though. In fact, VMWare *always* worked, while it is Xen that recently moved into the "working now" category. -=dave ----- Original Message ----- From: Nicholas Lee To: Les Mikesell Cc: dave johnson ; [email protected] Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 2:44 PM Subject: Re: [OF-users] anyone successful getting vmware server 1.0.1.29996installed on OF 2.1? - done On 5/4/07, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Have you actually used either/both of these approaches in a cross-platform environment? VMware has the advantage of actually working now... vs Xen not working how? I'm using both, and either is fine for what every virtualisation task you want to do. Domain 0 should not really be used for anything other than managing the guest domains. The same applies to vmware server. If you need the performance of having the storage system (openfiler) in a privileged domain then it probably should run on bare metal. Otherwise running it as an appliance in a guest domain should be enough. I've run samba (cifs) and NFS (for courier-imap) in Xen domains for almost two years with no problems. Nicholas
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