[nzlug] VMware x Xen x KVM x Qemu

[Robert Coup]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Michael Hutchinson
<mhutchinson at manux.co.nz> wrote:
> I don't want to comment too much on the other V software's because I
> don't want to be too down on them. But let me put it this way, I
> wouldn't put them in a production environment, yet, which was my point
> originally about the maturity of the software. I do hope they will get
> to that stage, and provide commercial competition for VMWare.

For virtual desktop machines? Sure. For Windows VMs? Sure. VMWare is
fantastic, and I use it every day.

But for linux servers, Xen runs a whole lot of hosting providers[1]
and in my experience is very reliable in production. Amazon's EC2
service is built on Xen. I'm not sure if Peter from Rimuhosting is on
this list, if so maybe he can comment - rimuhosting runs all their
hosts on Xen. RHEL5 has Xen built in and supported. So they are
providing serious competition and serious performance (*last time I
looked at the benchmarks).

- Rob :)

[1] http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/VirtualPrivateServerProviders