Fedora And Virtualization

[Tom Horsley]

On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:43:52 -0430
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

> Not necessarily true. I think the Xen people claim their product can
> actually be faster without hardware virtualization in some
> circumstances.

True. The xen paravirtualization is indeed fast, but needs kernel
support in the VM with a paravirt aware kernel, which you can get for
linux kernels (sometimes, depending on the current state of
patches), but can't get for things like Windows.