Re: [PLUG] Xen Hypervisor

2010-05-10 Thread Daniel Johnson
I've been thinking of switching from vmware server to full virtualization on my laptop using Xen. I would have the Xen hypervisor running and then Dom0 running a linux flavor with my virtual machines converted to Xen guests. Is anyone Xen? Do you think this would be feasible? What linux

Re: [PLUG] Xen Hypervisor

2010-05-10 Thread Daniel Herrington
What about performance? Isn't the Xen hypervisor simply a stripped down linux kernel with Xen? I would think that you would get better performance through the Xen hypervisor with direct hardware pass through than KVM and a full blown linux install. Is that not true? On 05/10/2010 01:42 PM,

Re: [PLUG] Xen Hypervisor

2010-05-10 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Mon, 10 May 2010, Daniel Herrington wrote: What about performance? Isn't the Xen hypervisor simply a stripped down linux kernel with Xen? I would think that you would get better performance through the Xen hypervisor with direct hardware pass through than KVM and a full blown linux

Re: [PLUG] Xen Hypervisor

2010-05-10 Thread Daniel Herrington
Cool, thanks. I have a quad Proliant with 16gb of ram coming this week and I'll throw ubuntu server on it with kvm. On 05/10/2010 03:47 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: On Mon, 10 May 2010, Daniel Herrington wrote: What about performance? Isn't the Xen hypervisor simply a stripped down linux

Re: [PLUG] Xen Hypervisor

2010-05-06 Thread MJang
On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 21:40 -0700, Paul Heinlein wrote: On Wed, 5 May 2010, Daniel Herrington wrote: All, I've been thinking of switching from vmware server to full virtualization on my laptop using Xen. I would have the Xen hypervisor running and then Dom0 running a linux flavor

[PLUG] Xen Hypervisor

2010-05-05 Thread Daniel Herrington
All, I've been thinking of switching from vmware server to full virtualization on my laptop using Xen. I would have the Xen hypervisor running and then Dom0 running a linux flavor with my virtual machines converted to Xen guests. Is anyone Xen? Do you think this would be feasible? What linux

Re: [PLUG] Xen Hypervisor

2010-05-05 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Wed, 5 May 2010, Daniel Herrington wrote: All, I've been thinking of switching from vmware server to full virtualization on my laptop using Xen. I would have the Xen hypervisor running and then Dom0 running a linux flavor with my virtual machines converted to Xen guests. Is anyone

Re: [PLUG] Xen Hypervisor

2010-05-05 Thread Steve Beattie
On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 09:40:33PM -0700, Paul Heinlein wrote: On Wed, 5 May 2010, Daniel Herrington wrote: I've been thinking of switching from vmware server to full virtualization on my laptop using Xen. I would have the Xen hypervisor running and then Dom0 running a linux flavor with