On Tuesday 18 September 2007 22:52:05 Dave Kempe wrote: > Sander van Vugt wrote: > > I'm planning to use Ubuntu Server as the platform to use virtualization > > on. Is Xen the technique to focus on, or is in your opinion Virtual Box, > > Parallels or SWsoft as good as a solution? > > Hi, > we use Ubuntu server pretty extensively for virtualisation and have been > disappointed with the performance and stability of Xen in general. This > has nothing to do with Ubuntu because we have tried Xen from source, > packaged our own latest versions with new kernels etc. > So we are now migrating everything to OpenVZ. We have backported vzctl > and deps to dapper and have a decent 2.6.18openvz kernel. Very happy > with openVZ - it understands whats its trying to do alot more than Xen, > is rock-solid, and does cool stuff like live-migrations without shared > storage! Its linux only of course, but thats fine if all you care about > it Linux... > > OpenVZ is the opensource version of virtuozzo, from Swsoft. The > development team is really active and getting 2.6.22 support is steaming > ahead. > Remember that Virtuozzo is great for virtual machines that are identical : this is why they have a huge market share in ISPs, and for that it has to be stable. It is less flexible as a general purpose, multi-use type virtualisation.
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