KVM vs Xen/OpenVZ for VPS hosting business

2009-07-19 Thread howard chen
Hello, Currently both Xen and OpenVZ are well known and mature product used in hosting companies. How about KVM? What are the advantages if I use KVM as the VPS solution? E.g. performance? security? maintainity? I am not familar with KVM so want to know your opinion. Thanks. -- To

Paravirtualisation or not?

2009-05-04 Thread howard chen
Hey, I am comparing Xen and KVM to see which one is suitable for me usage. From the FAQ: http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/FAQ#What_is_the_difference_between_kvm_and_Xen.3F It said: kvm does not support paravirtualization for cpu but may support paravirtualization for device drivers to

Re: Paravirtualisation or not?

2009-05-04 Thread howard chen
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen pa...@iki.fi wrote: On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 10:40:00PM +0800, howard chen wrote: Yes, paravirtualization is good. If running KVM, use paravirtualized network and disk/block drivers for better performance. So does it mean generally Xen is more