Xen Better That Vmware

from /.

The University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group is pleased to announce the open source release of Xen, a virtual machine monitor for x86. Xen lets you run multiple operating system images at the same time on the same PC hardware, with unprecedented levels of performance and resource isolation. Even under the most demanding workloads the performance overhead is just a few percent --- considerably less than alternatives such as VMware Workstation and User Mode Linux. This makes Xen ideal for use in providing secure virtual hosting, or even just for running multiple OSes on a desktop machine.

Xen's WebSite

#61351

I dont know, UserModeLinux is pretty darn fast,and very useful.

Oh well, the more the better.

Thanks for the link.

#61410

very interesting. Thanks for the link

#61417

so what exactly does this do.. a virtual machine but it seems more complicated then that lol

-bolero

#61428

I'll have to give this a try...

#61473

First, I couldn't believe this quote:

With assistance from Microsoft Research, we have a port of Windows XP to Xen nearly complete

But there's a catch:

The Windows XP port is nearly finished. It's running user space

applications and is generally in pretty good shape thanks to some hard

work by the team over the summer.  Of course, there are issues with

releasing this code to others.  We should be able to release the

source and binaries to anyone that has signed the Microsoft academic

source license, which these days has very reasonable terms. We are in

discussions with Microsoft about the possibility of being able to make

binary releases to a larger user community.

Well.. the idea sounds good tho, can't wait to try this thing

#61505

this was explained to me...

the problem with xen is that you have to recompile the kernel of the os.

well this is great to run 5 copies of linux on a big ass webserver or something, also has cool security implications, but........ windows, recompile kernel......

oh well. looks like they are trying to find ways to get around it, but there might not be much hope. that really sucks cause this looks to be one of the better ways to run multi os

#61647