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People have been saying "Xen is dead" for over 15 years; and yet here we are. :-) Xen and KVM are different beasts with different advantages. (Some of Xen's I
by gwd 4y ago
People have been saying "Xen is dead" for over 15 years; and yet here we are. :-)
Xen and KVM are different beasts with different advantages. (Some of Xen's I detailed in a comment here [1].) KVM in particular has some advantages in the "vanilla server virt" space, which is why KVM often ends up being the default in the Linux distro world. But we're not going away any time soon.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32607837 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32607837
- actionfromafar 4y agoI used Xen a lot in late 2000s, when it was a great alternative to spinning up more physical machines. Had a lot of fun with the office servers, running all disks with RAID some-number-or-other on a machine with an NBD[0] server on gigabit Ethernet, and then a couple of physical machines hosting all the XEN machines. XEN felt fast and, though not exactly easy to setup, fairly straight-forward. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_block_device https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_block_device