To be honest, this is akin to asking which Linux Distro is best... ask
100 people, and get 102 different answers!
I used Xen in CentOS 5, and now use KVM in CentOS 6 (yes, I like CentOS
better than the more popular Debian-based distros).
I found little difficulty in migrating from my knowledge of Xen to
getting some knowledge about KVM. I've been quite happy with both, and
even successfully migrated a hosted Windows 2003 client from an older
Xen host to a newer KVM one (with faster networking too!). In fact, I
found the CLI interface for managing clients easier in KVM than I did
with Xen... a big plus for me, as I tend to prefer a non-GUI server install!
I suspect there will be some performance preferences for one or the
other (and my understanding is that Xen has gained entrance to the base
kernel, so KVM is no longer the only kernel-based VM option).
Just my thoughts... they're as personal (and unique) as any of the others...
Dan
IT4SOHO
On 1/26/2012 1:44 AM, Casey Price wrote:
Hi all,
I'm curious to hear which hypervisors some of you guys are using for
virtualizing QMT or just VMs in general. I played around with Citrix
XenServer for a good 6-8 months last year, very very briefly checked
out Hyper-V, and currently am running Xen on CentOS 5.7 on a few of my
PowerEdge 2650's. I also briefly tried out VMware's free one...ESXi?
From what I've been hearing, KVM is supposed to be the new up and
coming standard. I haven't used it at all and don't know much about
it, but I was hoping to get some recommendations from others on here.
Someone mentioned Proxmox on here a few weeks back, so I downloaded
Proxmox VE 1.9 and installed it on a server I just recently bought the
other night.
That's about as far as I've gotten with it at this point, so maybe
someone can provide some insight?
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