Rich Teer wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a couple of situations for which Xen or VirtualBox would > seem to be ideal. The first is for a Win2003 server running M$'s > database, and the second is for running a bookkeeping program > once or twice per month. > > My question is: how do Xen and VirtualBox compare and contrast, > and which would be the better solution for the usage scenarios > described above (and why)? More generally, why would one pick > one technology over the other? > Per my understanding, with Virtualbox, you can have: + An easy-to-use GUI tool + An acceptable performance running VMs + Do not require CPUs with AMD-V or VT-x feature to run
While, with Xen, you can have: + SMP support + Better performance than Virtualbox with PV drivers - nic or disk + Live migration support Max > TIA, > > _______________________________________________ xen-discuss mailing list [email protected]
