fpoeta_at_pandminc.com
Date: Fri Oct 12 2007 - 17:35:21 CEST
Message-ID: <OFFBF196C7.09BD245F-ON85257372.0054BC27-85257372.0055A30C@titian.com> From: fpoeta@pandminc.com Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:35:21 -0400 Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] VMware Server on SLES10 SP1
Want to clear something up.
>SLES10 works in a PV environment because Novell has modified it
Though Novell made it easier to install SLES10 from media in a PV
environment. Novell does not own the kernel nor control it! Any competent
Linux level 3 admin could have compile the xen(OS) extension into the
SLES10 kernel to enable it.
Now they did a great job with SLES 10 to make it a virtual environment
with tools that are quit serviceable and with modify the kernel they do
control, Netware to run virtual on it. Which is not small feat I am sure.
As well as some additional feature sets for the Xen OS Project.
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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