On 12/30/2011 11:03 AM, Haro de Grauw wrote:
Anton, you are perfectly right. I've used XEN to run Windows on openSUSE for a while, but the performance penalties due to full virtualisation are quite hefty, especially on older machines. I never really got into paravirtualised linux-on-linux, but it is certainly something I should (and will) look into.
But that might just be a Xen thing, or something particular to your hardware. Owning a license to Vmware (paid for by my day job), I can tell you it is pretty awesome at not imposing an overhead penalty at least on the hardware I have, and for the VMs I run. Yes, there is a difference. (I usually see this only when running OpenSuse as the host platform and comparing it to the exact same version of Opensuse running as a guest) But it is much less than you might imagine, and its a great way to test new releases or other distros. -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org