I just installed Centos 5.5 with the xen kernel on an older machine. It
has Xeon processors and a 700 Mhz processor speed, so I realize I must
use para-virtualized guests. Reading the Centos/RH Virtualization Guide
gives examples of the process of installing guest hosts, but it only
lists
Windows guests can use drivers to work directly with the virtual-hardware
devices that are presented to the guest. And since windows is acpi, etc.
aware, with the right settings it works almost as if its paravirtualized.
When installing, for me its easiest to d/l and store the .iso file for
If I were restricted to the older machine, I'd explore using VMWare.
The bare metal version should be comparable to XEN performance, but the
free version is restricted as far as the number (3?) of virtual machines
that can be run. It'll virtualize MS Windows guests on older hardware.
The
On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 12:40 -0700, Drew wrote:
The free ESXi can virtualize more then three guests. The limitations
imposed on the free license revolve more around advanced capabilities
within the suite. Things like vMotion (automatic guest migration
between hosts), High Availability, etc are
I believe ESXi only works on 64bit machines with hardware VT.
Depends on the version.
ESXI 3.x will run on older 32bit only Intel Processors. I have it
running on an old IBM x445 w/ 8 pre-64bit Xeon processors.
ESXi 4.x does require 64bit processors. I can't speak to whether it
requires
