KVM and Xen

[Dave Jones]

On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 01:21:10PM -0500, Mike Chalmers wrote:

 > > AFAIR the 478 P4 doesn't include the required VT extensions.
 > > As such, only QEMU or VMWare Player/Server can be used to run unmodified
 > > guests. (Read: Windows)
 > > Both are free.
 > > QEMU is slower, but GPL.
 > > VMWare is (much) faster, but it's close source and as such, if it
 > > breaks, your own your own. *
 > >
 > Gilboa, what about Xen?

If you don't have VT extensions, you can only run paravirtualised
(read as: modified) versions of other OS's.  So you won't get to
run Windows without VT.

[rumor has it there's a paravirt version of Windows XP, but it
 hasn't been publically released].

		Dave

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