Nicholas Lee 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?
Windows guests. Windows, Mac, Linux hosts.
I'm using both, and either is fine for what every virtualisation task
you want to do.
Copy your VM image anywhere and run it?
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.
Acting as a file server doesn't seem like a big load. That's why I think
the openfiler might make a good host platform. And if the guests have
small boot/system partitions with the bulk of their space attached via
iscsi they could easily be moved elsewhere later if necessary.
I've run samba (cifs) and NFS (for courier-imap) in Xen domains for
almost two years with no problems.
I've seen an assortment of problems mentioned on the Centos list
recently related to xen kernels - often by people who weren't even
running guests. I'm not convinced it is ready for prime time yet. Have
you kept your kernels up to date with no problems from the updates or
are you sticking with something old and stable?
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Les Mikesell
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