On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 03:25:33PM +0100, Henk Altena wrote: > Hi everybody > > Following the quickstart guide of xen I can only use para-virtualized > guests because my Asus A8V Deluxe mainboard with AMD 64 bit processor > does not have the svm flag. > Can anyone tell me the difference between Para- and Fully-virualized > guests ? A fairly technical overview is here: http://virt.kernelnewbies.org/TechOverview http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-linuxvirt/?ca=dgr-lnxw01Virtual-Linux > What are the limitations of a system that only supports para-virtulazed > guests ? Fully-virtualized can (in theory) run any OS ever written. Para-virtualized can only run OS which have been ported to Xen (eg Linux and some varities of Solaris & BSD) At this time, paravirtualized is significantly faster than fullvirt so if you have the option paravirt is always preferred. With Windows of course you don't have that option - fullvirt is only choice. 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
