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From: Jean Blignaut [mailto:jean@×××××××.biz] |
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Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 4:59 PM |
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To: gentoo-server@l.g.o |
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Subject: [gentoo-server] xen intel vt - slightly [OT] |
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I have recently been investigating different virtualization solutions such as linuxvserver, bsd jails and xen. |
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This xen stuff is confusing the heck out of me at first I figured it was similar to a linux vserver setup (which I managed to get working just fine and with out much head scratching) but after a lot of scratching around I not so sure. |
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It seems to me that while vserver is a modded linux kernel that xen is like a micro os that boots first and then boots into your dom0 (your primary os –with xennified kernel- whitch as I understand can control the others) |
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Also it seems that you could have more than one of these privilidged osses installed at the same time sharing different parts of the hardware. |
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It also seems that with new virtualization features in the latest intel/amd cpus that this hardware level sharing can be taken to a new level and that this would enable xen to run unmodified osses such as doors or freebsd (which currently has no xen dom0 support) |
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My questions are: |
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How would xen domUs compare to vserver? |
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How does this hardware sharing stuff work? Would I be able to control the same raid controller from inside several virtual machines at the same time – or in turns if it comes to that? |
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I suppose that a more usefull example would be the graphics hardware: would you be able to utilize the full potential of your graphics hardware in these virtual machines? |
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This doesn’t quite awnser my question about being able to fully utilize graphics hw but is an interesting development |
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http://www.diku.dk/~jacobg/gfx/ |
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