-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Can you run windows under xen? My understanding was that both the host an client OS needed to be xen aware and thus windows was not an option. Is this wrong?
Donald Tripp wrote: > Like Stephan mentioned, there can be quite a difference between XEN and > VMWare when you look at its two different operating modes. In essence, > XEN is a kernel modification that allows for the XEN software to talk > directly to the lowest levels of the OS and to the hardware. This is how > come some say it is faster than VMWare, because VMWare is another layer > higher than XEN and performs total virtualization, where Para mode > performs half and half virtualization, where the hardware is not fully > virtualized. The benefits of these different modes, you will have to > examine which one is right for you. But, overall, para mode is great for > cases where you want to virtualize a few things, maybe a mail server > inside a web server, but you don't mind if they can see each other. Full > virtualization is great when you want to run Windows on a Linux box, and > keep them totally isolated from each other to prevent security breaches > to the windows "machine". > > On Apr 23, 2007, at 10:03 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Johan Mares wrote: >> >>> Is Xen included in SL5 ? If so, also with a maximum of 4 virtual >>> servers ? >> >> Yes. No. It is included, and it works, and there's no such limit (not >> even >> in the upstream product - at least it's not a technical limitation). >> >>> Does anyone have any experience with Xen ? How does it compare to >>> VMWare (the >> >> It's quite different. And there are two modes of operation (para/full >> virtualization) which are quite different again. Just give it a try and >> find out. >> >>> free edition) ? Any good manuals on how to get started with Xen ? >> >> Why not try the Virtualization Guide coming with SL5 ;-) >> >>> Tried it with Fedora C6 but either it tried to install itself onto >>> the install >>> medium (my dvd player) (installing SL4, Debian, Ubuntu) or it >>> disappeared >>> (Centos5) after installing. >> >> Read the document named above. Learn about virt-install, virt-manager, >> and >> the xm command (at least "xm list" and "xm create"). That should be all >> you need to get started. >> >> Hth, >> >> --Stephan Wiesand >> DESY - DV - >> Platanenallee 6 >> 15738 Zeuthen, Germany -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGLgQ0CDBz0lN+7YcRAi0OAJ0TAaeBlAfFtgf9Oe74Fx9qGg7+eQCfV1Ce Uu2CjMrDwTpU+olRqn1tlHM= =sCuo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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