[kwlug-disc] Virtualization technology

[William Park]

Historical.  Redhat shipped with Xen back then.  So, I don't think
companies are going to migrate revenue-producing setups for the fun of
it.
-- 
William

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 07:17:39PM -0400, Jonathan Poole wrote:
> I think it maybe a bit of sunk cost, but also big companies like a
> ?bit pointy finger? to swag around when problems arise.  If they are
> heavily invested into vmware, and trip a bug, vmware is obligated to
> fix. ...

> On Jul 29, 2014, at 6:02 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:
> 
> > Thanks to all who replied.
> > 
> > Seems that libvirt (which has virsh in it) is the way to go and be VM
> > technology independent (of sorts).
> > 
> > Now, for another aspect of all this ...
> > 
> > When I used VPSs, they have always been Xen based (SliceHost,
> > RackSpace Cloud, Linode, Amazon AWS), and performance is good.
> > 
> > But for the past few years I have been hearing that KVM is the way to
> > go, and it is better than Xen, ...etc.
> > 
> > Why are people saying that?
> > Is it overhype?
> > If it is true then why are the above big companies staying with Xen
> > and not moving to KVM?
> > Is it just inertia and sunk cost?