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Re: OT: Xen
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Vierling)
Mon Apr 3 14:49:20 2006
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 14:48:45 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200604031631.k33GV4vv008164@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> Solaris shops are going to find Zones useful. Linux shops are going to find
> Xen useful. However, I severely doubt that Zones are going to attract any Linux
> shops, or that Xen will be enough to make Solaris shops convert.
Xen's bigges strength really is in the colocation business. With VX-enabled
machines, it is capable of running instrumented OS's (Linux, Free/NetBSD) at
almost native speeds, and non-instrumented OS's (Windows, Solaris) with a
couple-% hit. It's that flexibility that leads to colo as the market where
Xen shines.
If it really were an OS-specific issue, then "Linux shops" might as well use
UML. (<cough> <shudder>)
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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com> <todd@vierling.name>
