On 04/01/2011 06:05 PM, Raphaël Pinson wrote: > 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: >>> Hi, >>> >>> In the past Xen support in Ubuntu as a host has been difficult for a >>> variety of reasons most notably no upstream kernel support. Now that >>> dom0 should be coming into the vanilla kernel soon. I think its time to >>> revisit supporting Xen as a hypervisor as well. >> 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...
That is right, We have customers with big servers with lots of ram using xen for paravirtulized machines, xen is a good product and we have really good performance. By the way, Xen is supported with the OpenStack. Best regards. > > Raphaël > -- Jorge Armando Medina Computación Gráfica de México Web: http://www.e-compugraf.com Tel: 55 51 40 72, Ext: 124 Email: [email protected] GPG Key: 1024D/28E40632 2007-07-26 GPG Fingerprint: 59E2 0C7C F128 B550 B3A6 D3AF C574 8422 28E4 0632
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