Hi, We developed and support for years now a software product for tech support centers that uses KVM as a hypervisor.
One installation at Canon in Japan runs 35 concurrent Vista/win2k/xp and soon Win7 instances. Each session is about a minute long (it is used by tech support people to help them guide clients to solve problems over phone/email. Sessions are accessed by users via VNC in their browser. There are 2000 such sessions a day. The start time for a new session with Vista (the heaviest OS) and an application ona loaded is between 6 to 9 seconds (well, let's say we are also have some resposability to this specific ability as upstream KVM doesn't do that. The perfomance, stability and flexability are unparalleled. They enabled us to develop a unique enterprise ready virtualization platform in record time and a cost which is lower then the license fees of a big installation of propritery solution for a single year. Xen and VirtualBox are nice and have their uses, but KVM is amazing. Gilad On Sep 16, 2009 3:14 PM, "Amos Shapira" <[email protected]> wrote: 2009/9/16 Gilad Ben-Yossef <[email protected]>: > Don't mean to dis Xen or anyone, but... > > You can drop the "eventually". KVM rocks :-) Care to give more details? Especially compared to Xen? I googled for "kvm vs. xen" but all the links I found so far talk about KVM's potential (and are a bit outdated). A view by someone who actually got their hands on it would be valuable. We use CentOS almost exclusively, though being able to run the odd Windows Server 2003 instance might be interesting to support legacy parts of our system. Thanks, --Amos
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