On Sunday 06 January 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Erik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: > >> Then you are stuck figuring out what on earth a hypervisor is. > > > > Alt+F2 > > wp:hypervisor > > ENTER > > Hey thats a pretty neat trick. Now if I wondered if that would be > important since I plan to run a vmware application... I will take > more digging. It mentions vmware but not clear if this is important > to it.
No, it's not relevant in this case. vmware is a virtualisation app, but doesn't use a hypervisor - it's a regular application with some custom kernel modules. kvm, xen and (I think) qemu do use hypervisors so this feature needs to be in the kernel for them. Virtualisation is a vast field covering many many different techniques, each with their own pros and cons. The technique vmware uses makes it very easy to install, use and configure your virtual machine (it's just a bunch of big files), but the performance frankly sucks. At the other extreme you get VServer which runs like a bomb but is tightly tied onto the host machine running it. Somewhere in the middle we have xen and it's simpler cousin kvm - due to hypervisors they give very good performance and are relatively easy to configure and maintain. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
