Once upon a time, Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> said:
Xen is not, however, backed with extensive commercial support (XenSource is still evolving at the moment),
Red Hat has announced that the next rev of their commercial OS offering, RHEL 5, will include Xen as a major component.
lacks easy integration into popular UI/control-panel products, and requires special kernels for the contained OS's (not such a big deal in practice).
With the right CPUs (late model Intel only at the moment), you can run an OS unmodified with a little higher overhead. This means you can run Windows on the same box as Linux on the same box as *BSD, all at the same time. Later this year, AMD's CPUs will add a similar (but different) extension. -- Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.