Amazon has several cloud offerings. Some utilize Xen as their HyperVisor. At least I was directly told this just last week. Of course, the representative wasn't accurate on everything.
________________________________ From: John Haxby <[email protected]> To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, July 24, 2010 3:06:59 AM Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] VM question On 23 July 2010 14:43, Paolo Campegiani <[email protected]> wrote: > Xen is also being used in large scale deployments. Amazon EC2 is pretty big > >Amazon doesn't use Xen for their HPC offer: > >http://aws.amazon.com/hpc-applications/ > >"Cluster Compute instances require booting from an EBS-backed Amazon >Machine Image (AMI) using Hardware Virtual Machine (HVM) >virtualization" Why does that mean that EC2 isn't Xen-based? Or even that the HPC offering isn't Xen-based? jch _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
