On Dec 29 2006 15:24, Greg Freemyer wrote:
Does this mean my MAME and NESticle games will run even smoother?
It means XEN becomes oboslete ;-)
I just did a little more reading. It does look like KVM is a XEN competitor.
We've got way too much competitors. VT/KVM, VMware, QEMU, XEN, possibly more. (No need to name them.)
One issue is that it does not implement paravirtualization and thus only supports the new generation of CPUs with VT (Intel) or AMD-V (SVN?).
Software based [para]virtualization is already provided by xen and vmware. It would be stupid to reinvent the wheel. KVM is basically a new type of tyre however, designed only for specific roads.
Especially in the Desktop world it is going to be a while before those are either routinely available.
XEN OTOH can support Linux Guests with standard CPUs via
Does not support Windows OOTB.
paravirtualization. (Xen too needs the new CPUs for Windows Guest OSes.)
Well no, there has been a patch to Windows to make it xen-compatible, but Windows' EULA forbids distribution. (Which is what makes XEN useless now since VMware is free.) -`J' -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org