Re: [CentOS-virt] which virtualization platform to choose

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 03:30:38PM -0300, Gilberto Nunes wrote:

Friends I'm in doubt here: which virtualization platform to choose and why?

If I have just installed a VM I choose Xen or KVM? And when I have more than 5 or 10 VM's?

Please, I need your help to choose right.

It depends on many things.

If your hardware doesn't have CPU virtualization extensions, then you only have one choice - Xen.

If you want to use 32bit host OS, then you only have one choice - Xen.

And if you run mainly Linux VMs then Xen is a good choice.

-- Pasi