Re: Fedora Core 4

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 02:20:42AM +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> >   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 a high performance paravirtualisating hypervisor. vmware fakes a real
PC - which is one hell of a trick to do efficiently and securely. Xen provides
a non-PC secure environment to guests which means it runs modified guests not
a generic x86 kernel. So it'll run the various BSD's patched with Xen support,
Linux and the like - much faster than vmware probably too - but it won't run
Windows.

There is a Windows port for Xen but Microsoft haven't released it