<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Josh More <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:MoreJ@alliancetechnologies.net">MoreJ@alliancetechnologies.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
The defacto topic next week is virtualizatiion.<br>
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Do folks care about this? (Seems to mostly be VirtualBox and VMware these days, are Xen and KVM dead?)<br>
<br></blockquote></div><br>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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