--- "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones(a)redhat.com> wrote:
thewird wrote:
> --- "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>> Mathew Brown wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I was wondering what the differences between Fedora 8's Xen and
>>> XenExpress v4 are (besides the limits of 4GB or RAM and four
>> virtual
>>> hosts). Is the functionality and stability the same or is
>> Fedora's
>>> Xen more cutting-edge? Thank you for your help.
>> I'm not very familiar with XenExpress, but I'm fairly sure that
the
>> management software used by XE is some proprietary code. Fedora
uses
>>
>> libvirt and virt-manager for management, has no artificial
>> limitations
>> on memory, CPUs, guests etc., and is completely open source.
> Does Fedora 8 have any way to limit the network speed on the
> guests?
I assume, though I've not tried it, that you should be able to use
ordinary Linux mechanisms such as the 'tc(8)' command to enforce a
traffic control and shaping on the vifX.0 devices.
To be honest, it's a bit of an unusual request: mostly people
complain
about not getting enough network performance :-)
Reason being the only reason I'm still using XenEnterprise for my VPS's
is because of the network limiter and the nice graphs which (which I
could live without). With XenSource being bought out by Citrix and the
price tripling for a license, I'm looking for alternatives. I asked the
datacenter already to ship me one of my dual-core's so I could test
Fedora 8 at home.
Marco Jorge