XenServer 5.5 is out

[Stephen]

Agreed, for me this would be interesting, as there are a number of
these solutions i have only barely heard of.

On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 6:53 AM, Eric Shubert<ejs at shubes.net> wrote:
> 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'
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