On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 09:53:34AM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
I would like to point out that VMware is working very hard to get these tools incorporated into Linux distros right now. Whether or not we should do this or promote Xen instead is a different argument for a different time.
Many people use VMWare right now, and these tools will work in all the version, not just the free server (though that is where we develop and test them).
It's always nice to have options. We've looked at Xen (and are looking at XenSource which I guess is the commercial offering), but a large chunk of our virtualization is Windows running on CentOS-based VMware hosts and so far Xen doesn't perform as well. We do keep trying it though.
It is possible that we will work with the VMWare people to add other tweaks to these kernels for performance gains ... if there are specific things called out by them to increase / enhance usability or performance inside VMware VMs.
Glad I found this list... as I mentioned we typically are doing CentOS hosts and virtualizing either Windows or RHEL on those hosts, so I guess in this case the -vm kernels won't help a lot, but definitely am going to take a look at the tools.
Ray