On 5/4/07, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My $0.02 on virtualization products... I haven't done scientific tests or ran all the products in production for a long time, but I've been exploring the options. The free VMWare server works and supports a hell of a lot of different guest OSs, but
Because of the way it works Vmware does support a lot more guest platform. I use both in different situations, mainly it is a matter of preference. Actually I don't think vmware server is redistributable anyway. So the point might be moot for OF. I think it lacks one of the major selling points of going virtual:
live migration to another box. ESX has this, but it costs a ton. Plain open-source Xen can't do this and can't run a lot of OSs
Actually it does, check out [1]. reliably (I've got some NT4 stuuf I need to get off aging machines).
I wasn't too impressed with what Xen Source Enterprise added, but VirtualIron looked really good and it's cheap. MS Virtual Server runs
Virtual Iron is basically running the same Xen kernel as Enterprise, with some additional functionality. I've tried both and founded I preferred the XE management GUI, and flexibility with access to the system shell. I'd test both, but I think you'll find that XE and VI support the same platforms and guest targets, with not much difference in performance. By the end of the year both will pretty much have the same base feature set (iscsi, vlans and migration) as ESX. [1] http://developer.novell.com/wiki/images/8/8a/XEN_migration_demo_1.1.pdf
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