Hi John, On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 1:10 PM, John E. Perry <j.e.perry@cox.net> wrote:
I bought a new motherboard for my wife's computer, making sure it (Gigabyte GA-P55-UD3) and its processor (Intel i5-650) supported both vt-x and vt-d. Recently I've read in a techno-blog that Xen is dead because of KVM. Suse ships Xen, and I'd intended to use it, but this guy speculates that Novell is only sticking with Xen because of its relationship with Microsoft; other distributions are already switching to KVM.
While KVM has it's advantage due to it's inclusion in the kernel (doesn't need different kernel like Xen), Xen are quite mature and stable and you should go with Xen.
Is there a firm answer to the value of Xen vs KVM? I've done some preliminary reading, and both look good to my uninformed eye. Are there any present advantages to Xen due to suse's direct support in the distribution? Is there risk that I might have to dump Xen in a year and rebuild my system with KVM? Are these questions worth asking :-)?
Your question are worth to be asking, and the following article from Zonker may give you a better answer :-) : http://www.linux.com/component/content/article/153-systems-management-/32762... Just to make it simple, openSUSE 11.3 (and also SLES 11 SP1) ships with both Xen and KVM. -- Best Regards, Masim "Vavai" Sugianto /************************************************************/ Blog (ID) : http://www.vavai.com Excellent Infotama Kreasindo : http://www.vavai.biz /************************************************************/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org