[Cialug] Meeting next week.

[Matthew Steven]

Xen is a bit warty but my impression (and informal benchmarks) have it 
far ahead of the pack on performance. Sounds like an interesting topic!

On 01/-10/-28163 01:59 PM, Matt Breitbach wrote:
> 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.
>
> -Matt
>
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> *From:* cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Matthew Nuzum
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 08, 2010 8:51 AM
> *To:* Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> *Subject:* Re: [Cialug] Meeting next week.
>
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Josh More
> <MoreJ at alliancetechnologies.net <mailto:MoreJ at alliancetechnologies.net>>
> wrote:
>
> The defacto topic next week is virtualizatiion.
>
> Do folks care about this? (Seems to mostly be VirtualBox and VMware
> these days, are Xen and KVM dead?)
>
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
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