Re: XenServer 5.5 is out

2009-06-22 Thread Francis Earl
> KVM ONLY works with chips that have virtualization extensions, and even then > it has less-than-stellar performance due to the use of qemu(which is a nice > tool, but quite slow) for the emulation layer. > XEN, VirtuaBox, Strange that you state Qemu as a negative for KVM, then go on to list tw

Re: XenServer 5.5 is out

2009-06-20 Thread Eric Shubert
Thanks. I'll be eager to see it! Joseph Sinclair wrote: > I'm hoping to be able to put one together in a couple months (perhaps > September?). > I'm actually working through a bunch of virtualization stuff at work, and I'm > thinking I can coalesce the stuff I'm learning about Open Source > vir

Re: XenServer 5.5 is out

2009-06-20 Thread Joseph Sinclair
I'm hoping to be able to put one together in a couple months (perhaps September?). I'm actually working through a bunch of virtualization stuff at work, and I'm thinking I can coalesce the stuff I'm learning about Open Source virtualization technologies (and lightweight Linux to run as a VM gues

Re: XenServer 5.5 is out

2009-06-20 Thread Stephen
Agreed, for me this would be interesting, as there are a number of these solutions i have only barely heard of. On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 6:53 AM, Eric Shubert wrote: > Joseph Sinclair wrote: >> Francis Earl wrote: >>> On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 08:51 -0700, Stephen wrote: Citrix Announcement:

Re: XenServer 5.5 is out

2009-06-20 Thread Eric Shubert
Joseph Sinclair wrote: > Francis Earl wrote: >> On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 08:51 -0700, Stephen wrote: >>> Citrix Announcement: >>> http://citrix.com/English/NE/news/news.asp?newsID=1690242 >>> >>> or right to download: >>> http://www.citrix.com/lang/English/lp/lp_1688615.asp >> >> I thought people were

Re: XenServer 5.5 is out

2009-06-19 Thread Joseph Sinclair
Francis Earl wrote: > On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 08:51 -0700, Stephen wrote: >> Citrix Announcement: >> http://citrix.com/English/NE/news/news.asp?newsID=1690242 >> >> or right to download: >> http://www.citrix.com/lang/English/lp/lp_1688615.asp > > > I thought people were more interested in KVM these

Re: XenServer 5.5 is out

2009-06-19 Thread Stephen
Xen is built on a linux core And still useful On 6/19/09, Francis Earl wrote: > On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 08:51 -0700, Stephen wrote: >> Citrix Announcement: >> http://citrix.com/English/NE/news/news.asp?newsID=1690242 >> >> or right to download: >> http://www.citrix.com/lang/English/lp/lp_1688615.as

Re: XenServer 5.5 is out

2009-06-19 Thread Francis Earl
On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 08:51 -0700, Stephen wrote: > Citrix Announcement: > http://citrix.com/English/NE/news/news.asp?newsID=1690242 > > or right to download: > http://www.citrix.com/lang/English/lp/lp_1688615.asp I thought people were more interested in KVM these days? Why is Xen still interest

XenServer 5.5 is out

2009-06-18 Thread Stephen
Citrix Announcement: http://citrix.com/English/NE/news/news.asp?newsID=1690242 or right to download: http://www.citrix.com/lang/English/lp/lp_1688615.asp -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button