XenServer 5.5 is out

[Eric Shubert]

Joseph Sinclair wrote:
> Francis Earl wrote:
>> On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 08:51 -0700, Stephen wrote:
>>> Citrix Announcement:
>>> http://citrix.com/English/NE/news/news.asp?newsID=1690242
>>>
>>> or right to download:
>>> http://www.citrix.com/lang/English/lp/lp_1688615.asp
>>
>> I thought people were more interested in KVM these days? Why is Xen
>> still interesting on the Linux platform? (I understand why on other
>> Unices, KVM is highly dependent on Linux features, but this is a Linux
>> users group mailing list)
>>
> ---
> KVM ONLY works with chips that have virtualization extensions, and even then it has less-than-stellar performance due to the use of qemu(which is a nice tool, but quite slow) for the emulation layer.
> XEN, VirtuaBox, VMWare are all much more mature and better performing, and all have much better support for diverse guest systems.  There are also a lot of tools and systems built on/for these products (Ganeti, VSMS, etc...).
> There are also a lot of lighter approaches for Linux-on-Linux, such as OpenVZ (Virtuozzo) and Linux VServer, which can provide very impressive results with very little overhead.
> 
> The Free-Software world is about having many choices in a diverse software ecosystem, not having the latest new "shiny" take over from other great tools and technologies.
> 

Thanks for the concise explanation of the virtualization landscape Joseph.

Would a virtualization overview along these lines (with a little more 
elaboration) would be be a good presentation at a meeting? I'd certainly 
find it interesting.

-- 
-Eric 'shubes'