Joseph Sinclair wrote: > Francis Earl wrote: >> On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 08:51 -0700, Stephen wrote: >>> Citrix Announcement: >>> http://citrix.com/English/NE/news/news.asp?newsID=1690242 >>> >>> or right to download: >>> http://www.citrix.com/lang/English/lp/lp_1688615.asp >> >> I thought people were more interested in KVM these days? Why is Xen >> still interesting on the Linux platform? (I understand why on other >> Unices, KVM is highly dependent on Linux features, but this is a Linux >> users group mailing list) >> > --- > KVM ONLY works with chips that have virtualization extensions, and even then > it has less-than-stellar performance due to the use of qemu(which is a nice > tool, but quite slow) for the emulation layer. > XEN, VirtuaBox, VMWare are all much more mature and better performing, and > all have much better support for diverse guest systems. There are also a lot > of tools and systems built on/for these products (Ganeti, VSMS, etc...). > There are also a lot of lighter approaches for Linux-on-Linux, such as OpenVZ > (Virtuozzo) and Linux VServer, which can provide very impressive results with > very little overhead. > > The Free-Software world is about having many choices in a diverse software > ecosystem, not having the latest new "shiny" take over from other great tools > and technologies. >
Thanks for the concise explanation of the virtualization landscape Joseph. Would a virtualization overview along these lines (with a little more elaboration) would be be a good presentation at a meeting? I'd certainly find it interesting. -- -Eric 'shubes' --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
