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KVM is used by Bytemark (www.bytemark.co.uk), who provide virtual machines for hosting (smaller scale than Linode, mostly UK).

• evangineer 15y ago
  It's worth noting that Bytemark started out as and was for a very long time a Xen shop.
  • dgl 15y ago
    They started out with User Mode Linux actually, before Xen even existed.
    • dasmoth 15y ago
      Indeed -- and stuck with it for quite some time. They were trialling Xen for some time, but I don't think they ever deployed it on a terribly large scale. Certainly, my VM went straight from UML to KVM.
      • pwaring 15y ago
        I believe the management tools for Xen (or lack thereof) were the reason for using KVM instead. None of my machines (I have 7 or 8) have ever used Xen.
    • evangineer 15y ago
      Thanks for the catch, I had forgotten that they were a UML shop.
  • pwaring 15y ago
    They were never a Xen shop, they trialled Xen with a few customers but never rolled it out. This blog post has more detailed info: http://blog.bytemark.co.uk/2011/02/28/why-we-skipped-xen http://blog.bytemark.co.uk/2011/02/28/why-we-skipped-xen
    • evangineer 15y ago
      Funny, I did read that article a few months ago but had completely forgotten about it. It's a good read if you're into the virtualisation thing.