On Thursday, February 04, 2010 01:52 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen 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. > Yes, sorry, you still need a driver that Redhat provides for Windows Vista and up. No support on Windows XP/2003 though as they do not have any virtual i/o support.