On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 11:12:00PM +0200, Aryanto Rachmad wrote: > ----- 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. Yeah, for Windows XP you'll need an Intel-VT or AMD-V capable CPU. Regards, Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
