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

Fri Apr 20 13:13:38 UTC 2012
Rafał Radecki <radecki.rafal at gmail.com>

Why?

2012/4/20 Jonathan Vomacka <juvix88 at gmail.com>

> On 4/20/2012 8:59 AM, Rafał Radecki wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > I am currently building a small test cloud based on Eucalyptus 2.0.3 and
> > CentOS 5.8 x64. I have a choice which hypervisor to use: KVM or XEN.
> > KVM is the default in CentOS 6 but I have read also many good things (for
> > example PV guest machines, isolation between Dom0 and DomU) about XEN.
> >
> > Key factors from my opint of view are:
> > - stability (which one runs more smoothly on CentOS?)
> > - performance (XEN PV/HVM(with or without pv drivers) vs KVM HVM(with or
> > without pv drivers))
> > - security
> >
> > Could you share your experience in these areas?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Rafal Radecki.
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> Xen all the way. That's just my opinion though.
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