[Cialug] Best VM environment

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

On 2016-05-11 at 11:16:02 L. V. Lammert wrote:
> Thanks for the info, .. in that era, Xen was the stable player; sounds
> like KVM is just as stable now, and there may be some advantages over
> Xen.

For what it is worth, i have a small number of virtual servers running 
on Linode's infrastructure. They are in the process of migrating from 
Xen to KVM. They strongly encourage new machines to be created on KVM 
instead of Xen, and soon will disallow new machines on Xen and start 
consolidating Xen VMs onto a smaller number of hypervisors. They've also 
come up with a migration process (from Xen to KVM) that is really easy 
for the user; it has been reduced to a single button in their web 
interface. At Linode, anyway, KVM seems to be the future. Since their 
entire business is virtualization, i can assume that they have put quite 
a bit of thought into this transition.

At work i administer a number of Citrix XenServers and quite like them 
for server virtualization. I also run VirtualBox for desktop 
virtualization and can recommend it.

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