Over the last year I have worked with Xen, KVM, VMware ESX and Sun VirtualBox. VirtualBox is my recommendation, hands down. On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi> wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100203/0a149c63/attachment-0005.html>