Re: [tlug] VMWare/Virtualserver free

[Alain Hoang <hoanga@example.com>]

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.  With VMware (not 
sure on VMware player) installing WIndows is rather trivial.

   But if you don't need Windows or <insert some random OS with no Xen 
support> at all, then Xen seems to be a better choice.

Alain


[1] 
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2006-06/msg00452.html