On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 04:40:09PM +0100, Luciano Rocha wrote:
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 11:29:03AM -0400, David Mackintosh wrote:
Hi folks,
Now that CentOS 5 is out with Xen, I can theoretically take better advantage of my nice Intel processor with the virtualization piece than I can with VMware Server.
You can't. Xen's fully virtualized hardware implementation isn't as fast as VMware's. Also, there are no para-virtualized drivers for HDD, lan or video for Windows, as there are in VMware.
Well not having paid for VMware ESX, _and_ having a fancy Intel processor with the VT feature, these are not issues.
What might be more intersting would be to compare the paravirtualization abilities of VMware Server with the full virtualization abilities of Xen.