[Fedora-xen] What are the minimal required FC6 packages for Dom0?

[Aryanto Rachmad]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com>
To: "Aryanto Rachmad" <aryanto at chello.at>
Cc: <fedora-xen at redhat.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2006 10:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Fedora-xen] 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