Re: Xen vs VMware

["Steve Mynott" <steve.mynott@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/18/06, Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>     Generally speaking I prefer the VMWare concept over the Xen concept.
>     Xen actually has to run two operating systems, one serving as the
>     master and the other as the 'guest' OS, and this compounds the
>     number of potential bugs you might run into a lot more then a machine
>     emulator does.

I'm surprised by this.  Xen (abstracting out some sort of meta
operating system) seems a "cleaner" and simplier solution to me than
running a  complex software copy of real hardware.

Anyway aren't we just talking about lines of C in both cases?  I
suspect the number of bugs in either would just be a function of the
total lines of C.

Xen is relatively small.   Although vmware source, isn't available
AFAIK would anyone care to estimate lines of source for it?