[lug] So much for VMware

Hugh Brown hugh at math.byu.edu
Tue Nov 28 15:05:01 MST 2006


>From the Redhat dog and pony that they did for RHEL5, Xen will also do
full virtualization if the cpu/chipset support it.

Hugh

On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Ferdinand Schmid wrote:

> I am running VMWare workstation 5.5.3 build-34685 without problems.
>
> VMware Workstation and XEN provide different types of virtualization.
> VMware emulates a PC with BIOS and all the hardware.  XEN provides an
> environment for running XEN-ified operating systems.  XEN has much lower
> overhead and we use it extensively here - but not for software testing.
>
> Ferdinand
>



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