better platform for virtualization

[Amos Shapira]

2010/1/20 Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli at il.ibm.com>:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 12:04:31AM +0200, Etzion Bar-Noy wrote:
>> KVM was designed, and is focused on VDI - desktop virtualization,
>> being the focus of Kumranet in the past. RedHat cannot maintain two
>> virtualization platforms.
>
> Again, that's wrong. KVM was not designed for VDI, although at its
> earliest days that was the primary use case. It was designed and is
> continuing to be designed by the Linux/KVM community as a general
> purpose, server and desktop, hypervisor. Can you show a specific
> technical area in which Xen is better today? I worked on both Xen and
> KVM, and KVM is better architected, better designed, better
> implemented, and has a better community.

Incidentally, I just got off the phone with ThePlanet, when they heard
we use CentOS+Xen for sort of a "private cloud" the geek from their
side talked about their upcoming cloud hosting offering where they
tested xen, vmware and kvm on Solaris and decided that kvm delivers
best performance.

Cheers,

--Amos