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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>CentOS still supports Xen out of the box,
and it's quite popular with the hosting market from what I can tell. Also, the
recently announced OpenStack framework is based on Xen. I doubt that Xen will
be going by the wayside soon.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>-Matt<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
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cialug-bounces@cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces@cialug.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Matthew Nuzum<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, September 08,
2010 8:51 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Central
Iowa Linux Users Group</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Cialug] Meeting next
week.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Josh More <<a
href="mailto:MoreJ@alliancetechnologies.net">MoreJ@alliancetechnologies.net</a>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The defacto topic next
week is virtualizatiion.<br>
<br>
Do folks care about this? (Seems to mostly be VirtualBox and VMware these
days, are Xen and KVM dead?)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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I can speak with confidence that KVM is not dead. It is definitely eating into
Xen's territory. VirtualBox is primarily for desktop/workstation virtualization
while KVM (thanks to libvirt and such) works great on headless or remote
machines. <br>
<br>
I don't know about Xen - it used to provide a very interesting nitch
(paravirtualization) which is, as far as I can tell, at the low end of the
spectrum these days. I think it's losing ground at that end to openvz and the
like because they (openvz, etc) are more friendly/profitable to commercial
ISPs. OpenVZ allows ISPs to oversell their capacity. It's not technically
virtualization though. <br>
<br>
It's tricky to find a modern distro that supports Xen out of the box. Debian
does but with an ancient kernel. Ubuntu and RH both dropped it in favor of kvm.
I thought if I went to their website I'd see info on this but didn't find it.
Amazon's EC2 service is all built around Xen though, so there is something
there.<br>
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-- <br>
Matthew Nuzum<br>
newz2000 on freenode, skype, linkedin, <a href="http://identi.ca"
target="_blank">identi.ca</a> and twitter<br>
<br>
"Lead, follow or get the hell out of the way." –Robert Nuzum (My dad)
summarizing an old military quote<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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