Xen virtual machines and ntp

[Jose R R]

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 9:39 AM, ESGLinux <esggrupos at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Marti,
>
>
> I run Xend in the host machine, not in the guest machine.
>
> Now I have 3 virtual xen machines running on the same Dom0 (Xen host).
> two of them are running non kernel-xen
> and one (the mailserver) running the kernel-xen
>
> About the discussion between Mark and Jose R R, I´m totally ignorant about
> what is best.
>
> I only know is that to use para-virtualization I need a special kernel
> (xen-kernel) and this is because I cant run Windows machines over Xen in a
> para-virtualization  way.

Of course, close source proprietary kernels, can only be
paravirtualized by its close source proprietary vendor owner.  Hence,
MS HyperV will probably run Win kernels paravirtualized to increase
its os performance.

 On the other hand, Xen will only run an WinXX instance fully
virtualized --at a performance penalty.  However, there are
organizations like Citrix, which acquired the open source vendor
XenSource, that have licensed drivers to make WinXX instances perform
better on Xen.  And Novell also licensed an similar set of drivers for
SuSE Linux Enterprise  (SLES) and SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
(SLED).

>
> In deed when I need to virtualize Windows, I use VMware. is it a sin? :-)

Sorry, I do not have a concept of a "sin" ;-)

>
>


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Jose R R
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