Xen? (was Re: [wellylug] Mailing List & Webserver)

[Ian Beardslee]

-----Original Message-----
From: Ewen McNeill <
To: Wellington Linux Users Group <wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz>
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 08:48:28 +1300
Subject: Re: Xen? (was Re: [wellylug] Mailing List & Webserver)
> 
> VMWare and QEmu are full PC emulators (CPU, virtual devices, etc).
> As such they can run anything with some sort of support for their
> emulated
> devices (fairly commonly used network, graphics, sound, etc cards).
> VMWare was there first.  Other than being proprietary (and moderately
> expensive these days) it works quite well and is fairly efficient.
> VMWare Player (gratis) also works quite well, although for Windows you
> really need the VMWare Windows device drivers and you don't get that
> with the Player version.  (But if someone with a more advanced version
> of VMWare built up the Windows VM, then gave it to you, you'd get the
> drivers too which should be okay.  VMware also seems to struggle with
> windows 98, et al, which need a regular timer interrupt for various
> events, these days.  They used to work well.)
> 

VMware have taken what was their GSX Server as VMWare Server and have
released it free (as in beer) ... http://www.vmware.com/products/server