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

[Stefan de Konink <skinkie@xxxxxxxxx>]

Fernando JimÃnez Solano schreef:
> 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. 
> > >  I 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.
Does Novell ship their own WindowsPV drivers or do they ship with 
experimental gplpv drivers?

Stefan

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