-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am 02.04.2011 02:05, schrieb Raphaël Pinson: > On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 1:51 AM, Clint Byrum <[email protected]> wrote: >> Excerpts from Chuck Short's message of Wed Mar 30 07:27:50 -0700 2011: >> >> Just playing devil's advocate here. >> >> Other than people already having familiarity with Xen, what is a >> compelling reason to support it in favor of, or in addition to, KVM? > > > Familiarity is a good reason I think, but also industry standards, and > hardware considerations. I think a lot of big companies expect major > distributions such as Ubuntu to provide a proper support for such a > standard as Xen. I know it came as a disappointment for us that using > Lucid as a (production) Xen dom0 was nearly impossible. Also, afair, > KVM requires hardware support. Most recent machines provide it, but > it's not rare to find servers that are too old to use it, and then > you'd rather use Xen for servers than VMWare... >
I agree with that! Really big companies choose the things they know. And if they have to switch the distro they do it. Another advantage for Xen: it is more mature and easier to setup (at least for me because I have only one configuration file I can change with vim). Much more documentation around that works. You have much more network options. And you can easily assign a hardware NIC to a VM with Xen. With KVM this does not work on every hardware... (Now I have 2 15.000,- ? servers where I can not do the things with KVM I could easily do with Xen. This was a pitty experience...) Michael -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk2W3E8ACgkQBvfZ5167qr84eACfSCUbvBfbvlYQPTOeZ0pqxgJE QfkAmwQuRa+u544lWrxruLWj8IIOiQX3 =sqYU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
