Devrim Gündüz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 01:23 -0400, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:
>> The other thing to consider is that CentOS 5 has Xen built right in,
>> so you should be able run VMs without VMWare on it.
>
> ... if the kernel of the OS has Xen support, there will be no
> performance penalty (only 2%-3%) (Para-virtualization). Otherwise, there
> will be full-virtualization, and we should expect a performance loss
> about 30% for each guest OS (like Windows).

I may be wrong but I thought that the guest OS kernel only needs special
support if the underlying CPU doesn't have virtualization support which
pretty much all the new Intel and AMD chips have. No?

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