On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 4:38 PM, John Andersen
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Sam Clemens
wrote: Sam Clemens wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Jack Malone
wrote: On to what I have heard about win 2003 running faster in XEN. I have been told that it runs better on XEN as in its more stable . I will know soon. maybe by this time next month I will have my server upgrade approved an will be able to let people know shortly after that.
This seems counter intuitive. What in xen could recover from instability in Win 2003 itself?
No matter what hardware you're running on, Xen is providing the same (virtual) hardware that W2003 thinks it's running on, so it could be the most debugged "hardware" for it. Alternatively, Xen just emulates a selection of hardware on which Xen is particularly stable.
Of course this explanation suggests that hardware faults are the cause of Windows instability or slowness when running nativly. I find that very difficult to believe.
And it still does not explain why the claim is made that Windows runs better under Xen than it runs naively. Hardware faults, to the extent they exist, would be still there.
The big difference I can think of is drivers. It could be that the Xen drivers are more reliable than the ones from the various hardware manufacturers. Video drivers in particular always seem like a source of problems with Windows. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org