On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 21:40 -0700, Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Wed, 5 May 2010, Daniel Herrington wrote: > > > All, > > > > I've been thinking of switching from vmware server to full > > virtualization on my laptop using Xen. I would have the Xen > > hypervisor running and then Dom0 running a linux flavor with my > > virtual machines converted to Xen guests. Is anyone Xen? Do you > > think this would be feasible? What linux flavor would you recommend > > as Dom0? > > Red Hat and related distributions (Fedora, CentOS) are switching to > KVM. I don't know if the switch says anything about Xen's long-term > non-Red Hat prospects -- but if you're commited to Xen, Red Hat is > definitely not the way to go. > > Debian stable (lenny) has good Xen support, and it's likely to be > around for a while. I suspect the LTS versions of Ubuntu are in the > same boat.
FWIW, I think KVM is easier to implement, as it's just a few kernel modules, as opposed to a completely separate kernel. Last time I tried Xen, it didn't work with a lot of network cards. It was especially incompatible with wireless cards. Anything that's tied to a certain version of a kernel has to be done separately for Xen. In the transition, Red Hat has made sure its tools (virt-install, virt-manager, virsh) work just as well with KVM. And when I've tried it with M$, I've felt no difference. If I remember right, Ubuntu has adapted the same tools. One of the issues with Xen is that its owner, Citrix, is especially cozy with Microsoft. If I remember right, some of the enterprise-level Xen admin tools now work only on MS systems (despite their continued use of the Linux kernel source code for the actual VMs). Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
