[Cialug] Xen or VirtualBox

[-Theron]

Was going to say in order of pref :
1. Kvm 2. Xen 3. Virtualbox

Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:

>On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 5:43 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
>
>> Getting ready to build a new production server, .. we have used VB for
>> some time due to it's flexibility and now phpVirtualBox.
>>
>> I just realized that Xen has Xen Orchestra - supposedly a parrallel WebUI
>> for the Virtual Environment.
>>
>> We run OpenBSD all the time with VB, so any input would be appreciated:
>>
>> > Does OpenBSD run well under Xen (indications are yes)?
>>
>> > Is Xen Orchestra comparable to phpVirtualBox?
>>
>> > Are there any other +/-s Xen/VB?
>>
>>
>
>I use these both. I use VB on my laptop and Xen on a couple servers. I have
>to say the command line interface for Xen is better than the one for
>VirtualBox. So much so that I started writing my own python library to
>control VB since I tend to use it a lot. I've never used the php interface
>though so maybe that is the big equalizer.
>
>One other potential benefit of Xen is it's support for LVM. That way you
>don't have to create a disk image which effectively is a file system within
>a filesystem. Instead you just create an LVM volume which can be resized or
>whatever LVM feature you want to use.
>
>The disadvantage of Xen for *me* is that Ubuntu is not a great host for Xen.
>Therefore I tend to run Debian on the host and then Ubuntu guests.
>
>One other thing to consider is KVM. RedHat and Ubuntu have both embraced it
>as the future of virtualization on Linux. As long as you have hardware
>virtualization support, it's a pretty slick system.
>
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