[SLL] To Xen or not to Xen

[Phil Mocek]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 03:10:27PM -0700, Adam Monsen wrote:
> I had a long, furious battle with Xen during mid-2006 and
> concluded that I really didn't like it at all.

I had a similar battle, but concluded that either I wasn't ready
for Xen, Xen wasn't ready for me, or both.

> Maybe it is easier to use these days, who knows.

I suspect this is the case.  I've seen some Xen kernels in the
Debian and/or Ubuntu repositories, and IIRC, SuSE is or was
working on a GUI.

> Xen:
> * requires special hardware for fully-virtualized VMs
> * takes for fricking ever to compile

* allows (or will allow?) you to move a VM from one physical host
  to another -- while it is running, without dropping network
  connections; search for "xen live migration" for details

-- 
Phil Mocek