fpoeta_at_pandminc.com
Date: Fri Oct 12 2007 - 17:14:35 CEST
Message-ID: <OFCABA56F7.E01C763C-ON85257372.00521AF2-85257372.0053BC77@titian.com> From: fpoeta@pandminc.com Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:14:35 -0400 Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] VMware Server on SLES10 SP1
While that is true for Xen(OS) it is not quit true for XenSource. In their
partnership with Microsoft to providing the hypervisor for 2008, they have
develop proprietary drivers for Windows Sever 2003, 2000 and Windows XP
that enable these to be install on XenSource products from standard
Microsoft media with little or no performance degradation.
But from a truly technical stand point the OS kernel from Microsoft can
only be modified by Microsoft. But from a practical view ie. does it work
for production which it does, with XenEnterprise you can load and run the
above products with more performance than on VMware Server and VI3. As
well as the more important SLES 10 SP1.
Francis Poeta
President
P & M Computers, Inc.
An IBM Advanced Business Partner
201-943-0353(v)
201-943-0227(f)
"Joseph Marton" <jmmarton@gmail.com>
10/12/2007 10:55 AM
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Re: [suse-sles-e] VMware Server on SLES10 SP1
The OS isn't modified by a third-party. It's modified by the OS
vendor. Windows 2008 will run in a PV environment because M$ is
modifying it. SLES10 works in a PV environment because Novell has
modified it.
I know Novell offers the virtual machine driver pack which is supposed
to somehow offer PV drivers for unmodified OSes, such as Windows XP.
I'm not sure how you install that, though, as the initial install I
would think would need to be via FV.
Either way, there isn't much that the Xensource folks can do about
modifying the OS itself.
Joe
On 10/12/07, Gordon Ross <G.Ross@ccw.gov.uk> wrote:
> <859ece290710120631m226650c8r4adfa7662c960b5d@mail.gmail.com>, "Joseph
Marton"
> <jmmarton@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yeah but AFAIK PV Windows requires either a modified version of
> > Windows
>
> Which is what I thought you got when you paid Xensource some money.
>
> GTG
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