----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "Aryanto Rachmad" <aryanto@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: <fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2006 10:43 PM Subject: Re: What are the minimal required FC6 packages for Dom0? > > Fully-virt just lets you run unmodified operating systems (notably Windows, > or older versions of Linux for which there is no Xen kernel available). > If you only care about running modern Xen enabled Linux kernels then > you have on need for fully-virt. As a general rule, if there is a paravirt > version of your desired OS available, using that will always be preferrable > to fullyvirt. The network & disk I/O is much faster in paravirt, and since > the kernel is informed when the hypervisor re-schedules it, it can do much > more accurate process accounting in the guest. It is basically impossible > to do accurate process scheduling in fully-virt, since the guest kernel > has no knowledge of the fact that its running under a hypervisor. > Thanks a lot Dan, I am actually planning to use Windows XP on one of the guests. So in this case I can not do that, cann't I? But on the other hand, I prefer para-virtualised as it has more advantages as you explained. Cheers, Anto -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
