On 5/12/06, kevin.kempter@dataintellect.com
Hi List;
I want to run CentOS within my SuSe 10 install. I have vmware 5.5 installed however I wonder if Xen is a better option. I have a xen grub boot option when I boot but I know nothing about how to setup an OS within it. Can anyone point me in the right direction and/or give me your opinions per xen vs. vmware?
Thanks...
Do you have a CentOS kernel with the XEN paravirtualized drivers built-in (ie. xen disk driver, xen nic driver, xen sound driver, etc.? (IIUC, SuSE 10.0 comes with a special SUSE kernel with the xen drivers built-in just for the guest OS to use.) If so, Xen might be a good choice since it should run your guest OS faster than VMware does. If not, you either have use xen with the brand new Intel VT technology (AMD doesn't have it yet), or you have to make the effort of building a new CentOS kernel. At that point, I would be thinking ov VMware. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century