On Thursday 25 Dec 2008, Sachin Gopalakrishnan wrote: > > Having played around a bit with Xen in the past few days, I'm > > interested in knowing what sort of host/guest network issues you've > > faced. I found the networking to work fine both ways, but then I > > haven't done any rigorous applications yet. > > Issues has been mostly due to the cumbersome process. Suppose i have > 2 linux machines and 1 WINXP; virtual machine A,B and C respectively. > > I want to process a document from A in C, i will have to copy from A > to B and > then from B to C before i actually begin work. Then i have to save > and go back > from C to B to A. This is a pain when you have to transfer many files > back and forth. > > If you choose to access files in B directly from an application in C > (since C is a VM in B), > the whole system slows down.
I see that Xen isn't too well suited for desktop applications so far. I'll try to avoid running Winduhs inside a virtual machine :) Thanks for the update, it's useful to know this. How about the stability part, and what if you have multiple independent Xen virtual servers inside a single machine. Any issues with network or other virtual component failures or quirks? Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur r...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
