On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 14:40 -0600, Holtz,Robert wrote: > Scott, > > Thanks for your input. The article was a good read. > > Reference: Athlon 64 x2 system with 8GB of memory. > > I've got a few issues that have me vacillating: > - Ease of use, i.e., I'm being lazy and customizations can be time consuming. :) > - Xen being built into the CentOS build is a large positive factor. > - Xen's Express version limitations: 4GB RAM and 4 VM. Bad thing. > - Windows 2003 Server is one Guest OS. There will be several of these, i.e., an M$ infrastructure. Then forget about Xen (just my opinion) , i mean Xen without proprietary drivers for the emulated nics, scsi controllers etc ... I've seen during my tests that it's faster to run a Windows (with the freely available/included vmware guest drivers) box inside of Vmware server than the same Windows (without any optimized drivers, because not availble) in Xen ... I know that such 'accelerated' drivers for Xen are available from Xensource and were announced also by Novell (for a annual price of 300 $ / guest iirc ! , to be verified though). Red Hat announced the same thing (no prices yet) for the xen optimized drivers for unmodified OSes for 5.1 ... > - *nix variants: Solaris and Fedora. > - The version of VMWare is the freebie. The unmodified OS support is a big plus. > > I guess I could run two Linux on Linux VM's and have two Xen hosts running to get around their limitations? > > This does seem a bit obsessive though! ;) > my 0.02 $ ... -- Fabian Arrotin <fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20071109/77c69cbe/attachment-0004.sig>