--- "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > thewird wrote: > > --- "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Mathew Brown wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> I was wondering what the differences between Fedora 8's Xen and > >>> XenExpress v4 are (besides the limits of 4GB or RAM and four > >> virtual > >>> hosts). Is the functionality and stability the same or is > >> Fedora's > >>> Xen more cutting-edge? Thank you for your help. > >> I'm not very familiar with XenExpress, but I'm fairly sure that > the > >> management software used by XE is some proprietary code. Fedora > uses > >> > >> libvirt and virt-manager for management, has no artificial > >> limitations > >> on memory, CPUs, guests etc., and is completely open source. > > Does Fedora 8 have any way to limit the network speed on the > > guests? > > I assume, though I've not tried it, that you should be able to use > ordinary Linux mechanisms such as the 'tc(8)' command to enforce a > traffic control and shaping on the vifX.0 devices. > > To be honest, it's a bit of an unusual request: mostly people > complain > about not getting enough network performance :-) Reason being the only reason I'm still using XenEnterprise for my VPS's is because of the network limiter and the nice graphs which (which I could live without). With XenSource being bought out by Citrix and the price tripling for a license, I'm looking for alternatives. I asked the datacenter already to ship me one of my dual-core's so I could test Fedora 8 at home. Marco Jorge -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
