4 Mar
2009
4 Mar
'09
7:35 p.m.
On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 00:54:47 +0000 (GMT) M A Young wrote:
But they aren't all as slow as vmware, nor is hardware virtualization required for a faster solution, for example Xen does very well without needing hardware support.
The original question was about running Windows XP. I've never heard of a paravirt kernel generally available for XP, and without paravirt it needs the hardware emulation (or the sort of software emulation vmware does which I didn't think xen had incorporated, but maybe I wasn't paying attention when it happened :-).