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Re: [Xen-users] VMWARE vs ORACLE VM



On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 5:55 PM,  <Sunny.Biswas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The xen hypervisor does not present the same driver for hardware devices
> such as nic, scsi controller which means that we would have to manage device
> drivers like we do with the different operating systems (win and lin/unix)

No

> oracle vm
> will need native drivers.

No

> Is the above statement correct ?

Absolutely not.

For most practical purposes, managing device drivers for an OS running
on top of xen/xenserver/ovm requires the similar steps/effort as
managing device drivers for an OS running on top of vmware when using
pvscsi and vmxnet3.

-- 
Fajar

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