Re: [Xen-users] bootable disk of xen on xen.org

[John Smith <slash5bmw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Fajar,

Thanks for the info. I am going to try xenserver from citrix since it can be installed without an os. I think the performance of all my VMs will perform better. 

Do you know if there are any bench marks comparing xenserver vs xen?

I am currently running centos 5.4 with windows 7 running inside it as a VM but it's a little sluggish.

I'd like to be able to shutdown centos while running windows if I want better performance. I think xenserver should allow me to do this.

I guess I will have to wipe my hard drive and re-install both centos and windows after I install xenserver.

Thanks again.

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Fajar A. Nugraha <fajar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:43 AM, John Smith <slash5bmw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is the software on xen.org the same as xenserver?

There are several projects on xen.org.

Xen hypervisor is the core component. It can't be run independently,
you also need a dom0-capable OS (like Linux) to install it.

XCP (Xen Cloud Platform ) is "a complete cloud infrastructure platform
with a powerful management stack based on open, standards-based APIs,
support for mutli-tenancy, SLA guarantees and deteailed metrics for
consumption based charging"

xenserver is the stable, supported version of XCP.

> I was unable to download a bootable disk of xen on xen.org

Depends on what you need, you can pick one of
http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/feature.asp?contentID=1686939
http://www.xen.org/products/cloud_source.html

http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/LiveCD
or even the linux distros with Xen support (like RHEL/Centos and opensuse).

Note that there's a major difference in management tools between
XCP/Xenserver and the normal Linux+xen hypervisor. Try them out, and
pick the one that suits your needs best.

--
Fajar

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