[CentOS] Window Server 2003 will not run as paravirtualized?

Joseph L. Casale JCasale at activenetwerx.com
Wed Jul 8 21:35:39 UTC 2009


>AFAIK you can only run any windows version in paravirtualized mode
>only in vmware server, not in Xen or KVM which are the virtualization
>technologies CentOS supports.

No. Vmware is no different than Xen or any other in this respect, they
also don't have access to the source and therefore cannot provide a modified
version of the OS.

There was a University project ages ago for Xen that was done under NDA but
obviously was only POC and never released.

http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/VMware_paravirtualization.pdf

jlc



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