On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 10:14:50AM +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: > On Wednesday, February 03, 2010 12:43 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > > Rafa? Radecki wrote: > >> Hi All. > >> > >> I plan to use virtualization in my production environment. I plan to > >> use one of the following options: > >> - KVM; > >> - VMWare Esxi; > >> - VMWare Workstation. > >> > >> I plan to install Windows 2008 as a guest. I want to use something > >> like LVM snapshots for backups. Stability is also very important, the > >> guest will be used as a production server. > >> Which option could You recommend and why? > > > > does KVM in CentOS have native virtualization 'drivers' for Win2008 > > server? if not, I wouldn't run it in a production environment. > > > > You can install virtio disk/net drivers. In fact, Windows 2008 supports > virtio disk out of the box iirc. > Maybe with Windows/Hyper-V host, but definitely not with Xen/KVM. -- Pasi