On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Robert E. Blair wrote: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > --Boundary_(ID_SueewxkWZqTyqfetkI8CcQ) > Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT > > -----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?
Only if you have hardware virtualization with either the Intel Virtualization Technology (VT) or the AMD Pacifica Virtualization. Know that XP works do not know about Vista. -Connie Sieh > > 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----- > > --Boundary_(ID_SueewxkWZqTyqfetkI8CcQ) > Content-type: text/x-vcard; charset=utf-8; name="reb.vcf" > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > Content-disposition: attachment; filename="reb.vcf" > > begin:vcard > fn:Robert Blair > n:Blair;Robert > org:Argonne National Lab;HEP > adr:;;9700 S. Cass Ave.;Argonne;IL;60439;USA > email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > tel;work:630-252-7545 > tel;fax:630-252-5782 > x-mozilla-html:FALSE > url:http://www.hep.anl.gov/reb > version:2.1 > end:vcard > > > --Boundary_(ID_SueewxkWZqTyqfetkI8CcQ)-- >
