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RE: [Xen-users] a new server for Xen

To: "Jan Albrecht" <jan.albrecht@xxxxxxxxx>, "xin" <xcheney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] a new server for Xen
From: "Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 10:59:49 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Jan Albrecht
> Sent: 01 March 2007 05:16
> To: xin
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> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] a new server for Xen
> 
> xin wrote:
> > Thanks for that. What about a VT-supported cpu to do the 
> para-virtualization
> > instead of full-virtualization? which one is better.
> I've AMD PV and Intel VT here and from my point of view the 
> VT are much
> better (and that's no matter if they're AMD, Intel or from Mars...),
> because you can install an OS "out-of-box" to that server.
> With PV you're limited to Linux and to special kernels.  And the
> arguments Mats brought up may be right, but as long as you do normal
> daily business on such a server (file-server, webserver, etc...) at VT
> machine would always be the better choice.

Sure, with VT (in my view obviously preferrably from AMD ;-) ) you have
ALL the possibilites, rather than just half of them. I should have said
so in my post. 

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Mats
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> Jan
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