Re: [tlug] VMWare/Virtualserver free

[Edward Middleton <edward@example.com>]

Alain Hoang wrote:
> Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>   
>>>>>>> "Micheal" == Micheal E Cooper <Micheal> writes:
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>> Are there any advantages of VMWare over Xen?  It looks like Xen beats
>> VMWare on all benchmarks except price (if you get the version of
>> VMWare that works, you also get to pay a much higher price; isn't that
>> nice?)
>>   
>>     
>     The number of supported guest OSes under Xen seems lower than VMware 
> which I guess is understandable considering VMware emulates a whole 
> machine versus the hypervisor approach of Xen.
>
>     One criticial factor is the ease of installing Windows on Xen?  From 
> what I've read [1], trying to get Windows to run on Xen still requires a 
> little bit of work.  The latest release does not support an easy way to 
> get Windows running.  You have to pull the latest code from the Xen 
> source code repository and build your own version.

I think the more critical issue is that you require hardware
virtualization support to run windows at all under Xen.  VMware does not
have this issue.  Qemu is more of an alternative to VMware but
performance may be an issue.

Edward