On Thursday 25 Dec 2008, Sachin Gopalakrishnan wrote:
Having played around a bit with Xen in the past few days, I'm interested in knowing what sort of host/guest network issues you've faced. I found the networking to work fine both ways, but then I haven't done any rigorous applications yet.
Issues has been mostly due to the cumbersome process. Suppose i have 2 linux machines and 1 WINXP; virtual machine A,B and C respectively.
I want to process a document from A in C, i will have to copy from A to B and then from B to C before i actually begin work. Then i have to save and go back from C to B to A. This is a pain when you have to transfer many files back and forth.
If you choose to access files in B directly from an application in C (since C is a VM in B), the whole system slows down.
I see that Xen isn't too well suited for desktop applications so far. I'll try to avoid running Winduhs inside a virtual machine :) Thanks for the update, it's useful to know this.
How about the stability part, and what if you have multiple independent Xen virtual servers inside a single machine. Any issues with network or other virtual component failures or quirks?
Regards,
-- Raju