Quoting Braun Brelin <bbrelin at gmail.com>:
> Well, according to the XEN homepage on Sourceforge, it says:
>> "Xen is a virtual machine monitor for x86 that supports execution of
> multiple guest operating systems with unprecedented levels of
> performance and resource isolation. Linux 2.4, 2.6 and NetBSD 2.0
> ports are available. FreeBSD, Plan 9 ports on the way."
Cool. it now has other ports. :-0
> Other than the fact that it doesn't seem to support Windows, can
> anyone tell me how this is different than VMWare?
VMware is a PC emulator, so you can install any X86 OS you wish. Xen is
different in this respect - and I see has already been answered....
The only other Linux based PC emulator is :
http://bochs.sourceforge.net/
which is dog slow....
or
another one whos name escapes me. Anyway both were so slow that I abandoned
them. I will likely remember after sending this...
> Thanks,
>> Braun
regards
Conor.
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