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