From: Joseph Marton (jmmarton_at_gmail.com)
Date: Fri Oct 12 2007 - 19:02:36 CEST
Message-ID: <859ece290710121002q430bff22od780b8654e747cfb@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:02:36 -0500 From: "Joseph Marton" <jmmarton@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] VMware Server on SLES10 SP1
Well you learn something new everyday. I didn't realize XenSource had
this ability. So how is support handled? If you have a problem with,
say, Windows 2003 server running under XenEnterprise and the XenSource
folks say it's not a hypervisor issue can you still get support from
M$?
I'd also be curious in getting apples-to-apples performance
comparisons of various flavors of Windows running in a PV
XenEnterprise environment vs running under VI3. I know typically PV
is better than FV but it'd be interesting to see these OSes which
don't have a modified kernel react.
I *do* think Xen's day is coming, by the way. With XenEnterprise 4 I
think I saw they added features to compare with VMware's VMotion, DRS,
HA, etc. I just don't think Xen is quite there yet. But with the
money of Citrix behind it now anything is possible.
Joe
On 10/12/07, fpoeta@pandminc.com <fpoeta@pandminc.com> wrote:
> 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)
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-sles-e-unsubscribe@suse.com
For additional commands, e-mail: suse-sles-e-help@suse.com
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.7 : Fri Oct 12 2007 - 19:02:53 CEST