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Re: OT: Xen
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Mon Apr 3 09:35:16 2006
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 08:34:52 -0500
From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
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Once upon a time, Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> said:
> Xen is not, however, backed with
> extensive commercial support (XenSource is still evolving at the moment),
Red Hat has announced that the next rev of their commercial OS offering,
RHEL 5, will include Xen as a major component.
> lacks easy integration into popular UI/control-panel products, and requires
> special kernels for the contained OS's (not such a big deal in practice).
With the right CPUs (late model Intel only at the moment), you can run
an OS unmodified with a little higher overhead. This means you can run
Windows on the same box as Linux on the same box as *BSD, all at the
same time. Later this year, AMD's CPUs will add a similar (but
different) extension.
--
Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
