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

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 11:12:00PM +0200, Aryanto Rachmad wrote:
> ----- 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.

Yeah, for Windows XP you'll need an Intel-VT or AMD-V  capable CPU.

Regards,
Dan.
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