Re: [CentOS] XEN or KVM - performance/stability/security?

On Apr 23, 2012, at 1:02 PM, Steve Thompson wrote:

On Mon, 23 Apr 2012, Peter Peltonen wrote:

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I've been quite happy with Xen under CentOS5. For CentOS6 the situation is a bit more problematic, as RH switched to KVM and left Xen behind.

I used Xen for about four or five years before switching to KVM. I like KVM better in every way, and for my fork-heavy workloads, the performance is a lot better than Xen. It is also much easier to use and is in my experience more stable.

Steve

I also prefer KVM over Xen, mainly I don;t have to do anything special when maintaining the env.

But I haven't notice an improvement over Xen.

I really like the fact that the guest OS has a stock kernel, etc..

- aurf