[CentOS-virt] which virtualization platform to choose

Mon Jul 26 20:41:43 UTC 2010
Gilberto Nunes <gilberto.nunes32 at gmail.com>

2010/7/26 Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi>:
> 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.

Yes. All hardware has virt extensions...
>
> If you want to use 32bit host OS, then you only have one choice - Xen.

Yes... All software is 32 bits
> And if you run mainly Linux VMs then Xen is a good choice.

No... Mostly software is Windows based here...


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