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Re: [Xen-users] The death of XEN by Novell

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] The death of XEN by Novell
From: jim burns <jim_burn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:53:28 -0400
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On Sat July 19 2008 5:04:46 pm Nick Couchman wrote:
> This sounds to me like an emotional (over)reaction to a bug in Xen.  I have
> also run across this flaw in Xen (Novell's version of it, anyway - don't
> know if all of the Xen versions are tainted) and have resigned myself to
> running my multi-processor Windows VMs on my VMware ESX servers instead of
> on XEN.
[...]
> 1) Yes, there's a bug in there somewhere that makes running a
> multi-processor Windows-based HVM crash.

Just another data point: My Winxp vm works fine on Fedora 8 with vcpus=2. I 
mostly use it for multimedia - nothing as demanding as a database.

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