A brief architecture overview of VMware ESX, XEN and MS Viridian:
http://it20.info/blogs/main/archive/2007/06/17/25.aspx
phoenix: There's also paravirtual disk and network drivers available for Linux and Windows which give native I/O performance.
http:///kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/
http://www.linux-kvm.com
.. Link 1 is now:
http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Main_Page
hansivers: For those of us who are addicted to benchmarks, i found this link quite interesting:
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/archi.../t-168825.html
KVM is the way to go and from one of the pages at KVM it say this:
"
Here is the setup which is used with kvm and qemu. Qemu can run as standalone, with kqemu module or with kvm module."
qemu-kvm-0.12.4 released
Monday, May 10, 2010 - 01:06 Haydn Solomon
http://www.linux-kvm.com/?page=1
http://www.linux-kvm.com/content/ups...ased-bug-fixes
Seems like something going on, but I can't find where it might say "FreeBSD as host" and can run Windows as guest.