Re: [Xen-users] The death of XEN by Novell

[Fernando JimÃnez Solano <fernandojs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:53:28 +0200, jim burns <jim_burn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  
wrote:
> On Sat July 19 2008 5:04:46 pm Nick Couchman wrote:
> > This sounds to me like an emotional (over)reaction to a bug in Xen. ÂI  
> > have
> > also run across this flaw in Xen (Novell's version of it, anyway - don't
> > know if all of the Xen versions are tainted) and have resigned myself to
> > running my multi-processor Windows VMs on my VMware ESX servers instead  
> > of
> > on XEN.
> [...]
> > 1) Yes, there's a bug in there somewhere that makes running a
> > multi-processor Windows-based HVM crash.
> Just another data point: My Winxp vm works fine on Fedora 8 with  
> vcpus=2. I
> mostly use it for multimedia - nothing as demanding as a database.
Same here. We've got a Windows 2000 VM running Apache, MySQL and MS SQL  
with
vcpus ranging from 2 to 4 with no problems whatsoever, or at least not
related with this SMP thing.

We use XenSource's hypervisor built from source with Ubuntu's default Xen
kernel on dom0.

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