On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 3:13 AM, Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 29 March 2012 22:59, Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:32 PM, francis picabia <fpica...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Xen requires a patched kernel. It is unstable. It crashed on >>> me randomly before I got as far as configuring any VM stuff. >>> The system which experienced this returned to a standard >>> Debian kernel and never had a problem again. >>> >>> KVM is native part of kernel. It is stable. I've been running on several >>> systems for over a year and no crash. >>> >>> Both share the same qemu devices and drivers land. >>> >>> You can read what IBM has to say about key benefits and security >>> features of kvm... >>> >>> ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/linux/pdfs/LXW03004-USEN-00.pdf >>> >>> A big clue is Redhat is dropping xen virtualization going forward. >>> >>> Kvm will get more development support than xen. >>> >>> I see no reason to even consider xen. >> >> It's something of a stretch to go from "it's unstable for me" to "it's >> unstable for all"... Since RHEL6 was published in November 2010, the >> level of kvm use might have reached or surpassed the level of xen use >> by now but xen's still in heavy use by many... >> >> Unless there's a fedora-devel thread where this was discussed, there's >> probably no way to know why RHEL6 switched to kvm except to assume >> that kvm's in-kernel and xen isn't. This has changed in the latest >> kernels so xen support might very well be re-added, and possibly >> favored, in RHEL7. > > RH employs some of the KVM devs. RH apparently has not contributed to > Xen for several years and has now decided to only support a single > code base: KVM. It does not appear to have anything to do with Xen or > its quality/performance/features.
Thanks for the info. We'll see if they stick to that decision. Fedora added Xen QA tests this release cycle (I don't know whether these tests include dom0). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=Sx1BMEDVvwDQBeHMSULtK_eJ8TMRJL4yii=jburcsw...@mail.gmail.com
