____/ Rex Ballard on Wednesday 27 June 2007 04:10 : \____
All very, very interesting. Just a couple of quick comments.
> Because Linux can be told how big a VM can/should be, the OS can
> quickly grant that much memory. Running VMs under Windows, especially
> Windows XP or Vista is a big problem because the OS fights to keep all
> of the memory for Windows. This makes the VMs MUCH slower. Microsoft
> could fix this if they wanted to, but they were trying so hard to keep
> Linux OFF the desktop, that Linux is now the preferred platform for
> the HOST operating system instead of the GUEST.
On one occasion or two, Ron Hovsepian was caught saying that his deal with
Microsoft would involve putting Linux /on/ Windows, not the other way around.
Mind the manipulation and remember that the man received $millions in bonuses
after the deal.
> The good news is that the Windows VM runs better under Linux than it
> does on native hardware. Linux manages disk more efficiently, and
> this is really important when Windows is going out to the hard drive
> alot. I have a Windows VM on my Linux PC and it really runs great.
> I've been using VMWare, but if IBM can come up with a really good
> graphical interface to Xen that makes Xen as easy to use as VMWare,
> I'll probably want to generate a Xen appliance too. VMWare and Xen
> are working together to try and standardize some of the key components
> of virtualization.
Xen has a nice and simple front end in Fedora. It was demonstrated in Fedora 6,
IIRC, and I wonder if it made it into RHEL 4.5 and RHEL 5. Either way, it's
getting there. Microsoft holds XenSource by the balls now, as well (they feed
them money). XenSource has a new branch in Redmond (?) and they get
manipulated into good/better Windows support. The same story with Zend...
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