Dennis Gilmore wrote:
On Thursday 23 February 2006 11:56, Steve Huff wrote:
On Feb 23, 2006, at 12:53 PM, James B. Byrne wrote:
Can anyone offer informed comments on the relative merits of choosing xen over vmware server, or vice versa? The target OS would all be CentOS4.2 or later as they become available. The host hardware would all be 2.8GHz i86-P4 with 250 GB IDE drives and 2 GB RAM.
VMware Server can run Windows. if you need Windows, you need VMware (for the time being, except in certain special cases).
Latest xen will run windows if and only if you have a cpu that has in built virtualization AMD and Intel both have cpus out there that do this. with those cpus you can run any unmodified os. so you could install stock anything including any version of CentOS as a guest
Just want to add here that on one AMD64 machine where I've run Xen and VMware GSX, I've seen Xen to manage resources slightly better than VMware
- K