[CentOS] CentOS 5 - Xen and Vmware Server

redhat at mckerrs.net redhat at mckerrs.net
Mon Oct 15 22:31:32 UTC 2007


Guys, 

you can't do this. 


If you try and run vmware on a Xen kernel you will panic/crash the box as soon as you try to startup a vmware vm. 


Both Xen and vmware run in ring 0. 




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen John Smoogen" <smooge at gmail.com> 
To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 6:56:10 AM (GMT+1000) Australia/Brisbane 
Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 - Xen and Vmware Server 

On 10/15/07, Bruno Sousa <bruno.sousa at first.pt> wrote: 
> 
> 
> Hello everyone, 
> 
> Is it possible to run in at the same time Xen and Vmware, under the same 
> physical host? 
> 
> 

Not without patching a lot of stuff. When someone asked this a while 
back.. there was a lot of conflicting code and when they got past that 
it just crashed. To put it another way, both are ball games that look 
alike: Cricket, American Baseball.. beyond throwing a ball, hitting, 
catching, and running they are not the same. 



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