better platform for virtualization

[Amos Shapira]

2010/1/20 Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad at codefidence.com>:
> Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
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> Jonathan Ben Avraham <yba at tkos.co.il> writes:
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> Hi Gilad,
> Why do you recommend KVM over XEN? Have you fiddled with both? Are
> there particular problems with XEN?
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> Apart from the fact that XEN is paravirtualization technology and
> running a mission-critical Windows DomU is possible mostly in theory?
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> Actually, I don't think this is true. Xen 2.0 supports VT extensions based
> virtualozation, so Xen is as capable as running Windows hosts as is KVM.

Speaking from personal experience - we got a few Xen DomU's of Windows
Server 2003 on top of CentOS xen DomU's.

Luckily their numbers are very small and falling :)

--Amos