[wellylug] Xen and Windows

Cliff Pratt enkidu at cliffp.com
Mon Aug 17 12:04:06 NZST 2009


William Hamilton wrote:
 >
> I am looking at putting some time into Xen as a couple of clients are 
> making noises about virtualisation blah blah.  Having had a quick read I 
> see that Windows is not greatly supported unless the processor has 
> virtualisation built in.  
> 
> Anyone here doing a mix of Linux/Windows on Xen? (one particular client 
> has a Windows app they cannot get rid of at this stage).  Any 
> recomendations on hardware?  A number of my boxes are SuperMicro 1U and 
> 2U which I have had good experiences with.
> 
Hmm, I've used both Xen and VMware and the winner is not Xen. VMWare 
Server is free (though you may want to check the T&C and now there is a 
free version of ESX - ESXi.

Cheers,

Cliff



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