On Apr 23, 2012, at 1:02 PM, Steve Thompson wrote: > On Mon, 23 Apr 2012, Peter Peltonen wrote: > >> 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