> Anyway, I like Vservers. I use Vservers. However owing to the "luck of the > draw" it looks like Xen is getting lots and LOTS of attention. FWIW I had a look at Xen as a technology before finding vservers. Given the problem it solves, it is a very good solution. But for me it is not the problem I need solving and I believe this is the case with a large number of other virtualisation problems. Generally the demand seems to be for a number of logical servers to share the same hardware. Given most admin preferences / corporate policies, these will normally be the same operating system (if you're bothered enough to use different OS's for security / stability you're also bothered enough to put them on different hardware). For this vservers (and similar on Solaris and FreeBSD) is the obvious solution, it allows very easy and intuitive management from the host machine (i.e. vkill and being able to admin all of the host filesystems simultaneously) which would be very difficult ot implement using the Xen model. Also it doesn't have some of the overheads that Xen and other solutions have, such as swap / memory useage algorithms clashing between layers and having the overhead of running multiple kernels.
They both solve their own problems well and each others problems not so well IMHO. I just wish people would stop billing Xen as the solution ot vserver style problems. But that's just my 2p's worth. > Then again, if the Solaris people got their Linux emulation stuff (Janus?) > working properly, you could also run your Linux servers inside Solaris > Containers! To a degree but I believe this is just userland emulation so you wouldn't get everything. Now what would be fun is to use the Solaris / Irix / *BSD compatability layers in Linux to see if you could run $OTHEROS based userlands in vservers. Should be possible, would be cool and would probably help debug the compatability layers no end. Might hazard a guess that some shenanigans of this sort with Wine might be possible... but then I guess that's vservers getting into Xen territory. Cheers, - Martin _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
