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.