Hi everyone, I'm trying to get VMWare Workstation 5.5 running on the 10.1 RC3 xen kernel. VMWare works on the regular kernel, because of the vmware-any-any-101 patch. But when I try to do the vmware-config.pl when running the xen kernel, it fails. Has anybody been able to get this to work? I don't expect EMC will be making a version that will work with XEN kernels. Thanks, Chad
Quoting Chad Groneman
I'm trying to get VMWare Workstation 5.5 running on the 10.1 RC3 xen kernel. VMWare works on the regular kernel, because of the vmware-any-any-101 patch. But when I try to do the vmware-config.pl when running the xen kernel, it fails.
Has anybody been able to get this to work?
Just curious why would you want to run both Xen and VMware on the same physical machine? -- _________________________________________________________ A Message From... L. Mark Stone Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC "We manage your network so you can manage your business" 477 Congress Street Portland, ME 04101 Tel: (207) 772-5678 Web: http://www.rnome.com This email was sent from Reliable Networks of Maine LLC. It may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If you suspect that you were not intended to receive it, please delete it and notify us as soon as possible. Thank you.
Just curious why would you want to run both Xen and VMware on the same physical machine?
I've thought about doing this exact thing (although I haven't tried yet): run Windows XP with VMware (because you can't with Xen), but run Fedora Core 5 (for example) with Xen to get the extra performance boost (or so I've heard). This wouldn't be a production server or anything, just on a personal machine... regards, ajl
On Wednesday, May 3, 2006 19:30, Andrew Lofthouse wrote:
Just curious why would you want to run both Xen and VMware on the same physical machine?
I've thought about doing this exact thing (although I haven't tried yet): run Windows XP with VMware (because you can't with Xen), but run Fedora Core 5 (for example) with Xen to get the extra performance boost (or so I've heard). This wouldn't be a production server or anything, just on a personal machine...
Not sure it's worth it. We have been testing Xen but have been running VMware Workstation a lot, and it's pretty fast if you keep all of the vm's memory in RAM. You need a lot of RAM to run several VMs this way of course. FWIW, I have an IBM laptop maxed out on RAM that runs SuSE 10, and I can fire up three active Windows vms before the disk gets to thrashing. Not sure Xen would do any better to avoid disk thrashing... YMMV. Mark -- _________________________________________________________ A Message From... L. Mark Stone Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC "We manage your network so you can manage your business" 477 Congress Street Portland, ME 04101 Tel: (207) 772-5678 Web: http://www.rnome.com This email was sent from Reliable Networks of Maine LLC. It may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If you suspect that you were not intended to receive it, please delete it and notify us as soon as possible. Thank you.
Hi, On Wednesday 03 May 2006 19:31, Chad Groneman wrote:
Has anybody been able to get this to work? I don't expect EMC will be making a version that will work with XEN kernels.
Any news on this? I'd like to have VMWare work under my SUSE 10.1 Xen kernel. Why? Because I plan to run certain standard web services under Xen, but use some Windows software under VMWare with Windows. Greetings, -Ré -- Registered Linux User #324404
Hi,
Any news on this? I'd like to have VMWare work under my SUSE 10.1 Xen kernel. I don't expect that it ever will run, because both need a modified kernel and direct hardware-access!
Why? Because I plan to run certain standard web services under Xen, but use some Windows software under VMWare with Windows. Get VT- or SVM-compatible hardware and install windows as guest on it! --
Chau y hasta luego, Thorolf
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