[CentOS] xen vs. vmware server
Karanbir Singh
mail-lists at karan.org
Thu Feb 23 22:39:50 UTC 2006
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
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