Fedora Core 4

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On 15 Jan 2005, at 02:20, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:

>> - Xen and Virtualization
>>
>>   This starts by integrating the Xen kernel stuff, and going
>>   from there.
>>
>
> Hmm.. Xen is quite similar to VMWare, or am i totaly wrong?

Xen is very different from VMware. VMware emulates a fake PC and is 
able to run nearly any Operating System and suboperating systems (like 
Windows). However, Xen does perform paravirtualization instead of 
emulating a whole PC. Paravirtualization requires changes into the 
guest operating system source code, in order to replace hardware 
dependent code with calls to Xen itself (the Xen hypervisor). This 
allows high performance virtualization. VMware-like emulation is a lot 
trickier.

Since Xen requires the guest operating system source code to be 
modified, Windows is not (and probably will never, in a foreseeable 
future) supported. Up to date, only Linux and NetBSD are supported, 
although people are working towards porting FreeBSD to Xen.

All in all, Xen is God Blessing.