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Yes it's still popular in some places, and lots of new development is going on. Xen is superior to KVM in my opinion.
by eixiepia 4y ago
Yes it's still popular in some places, and lots of new development is going on. Xen is superior to KVM in my opinion.
- AshamedCaptain 4y agoI'd actually _like_ to use Xen, but as far as I can see is just dead in all but name. To name one example, nested virtualization support is not only hopelessly broken, it's MORE broken in recent releases than it was a decade ago. You can see right here how the feature kept getting broken by every other release until nothing worked anymore: https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Nested_Virtualization_in_Xen https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Nested_Virtualization_in_Xe.... And Xen is literally the only virtualizer out there that does not support nested virtualization, which is a rather critical feature since many (dev) stacks assume one has hardware virtualization, and Windows is going to require it sooner than later.
- naasking 4y agoIf nested virtualization isn't used by their main customers I'm not sure it's that critical to them
- plam503711 4y agoXen Project is far being dead (there's a lot of activity in the mailing list, and now, thanks to new contributors like Vates/XCP-ng, there's also more initiatives to have a decent project tracking, see https://gitlab.com/groups/xen-project/-/epics?state=opened&page=1&sort=start_date_desc https://gitlab.com/groups/xen-project/-/epics?state=opened&p... for example). Regarding nested virt, you are mostly right: it's only "working-ish" for basic things, but indeed, it's broken when you start to use anything heavy in your nested VM. The main reason nobody fixed it is because it's not really used: as any other open source project, you find what you need if you contribute. Obviously, as soon someone will need this and willing to contribute, it will change :)