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 -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq