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Re: OT: Xen

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephane Bortzmeyer)
Tue Apr 4 03:43:34 2006

Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 09:43:06 +0200
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@hezmatt.org>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20060403221132.GG2545@hezmatt.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 08:11:32AM +1000,
 Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@hezmatt.org> wrote 
 a message of 14 lines which said:

> Fairly well -- a lot better than (eg) vservers, and almost certainly
> better than UMLs.

Because they are different virtualisation solutions with different
requirments. If you have unrelated customers, who do not trust each
other, Xen (or UML) is OK. If you just want to put one service on a
different machine but do not have the money (or the rack space) to
dedicate a box to just DHCP, Linux Vservers or FreeBSD jails are fine.


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