> -----Original Message----- > From: kvm-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kvm-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of howard chen > Sent: Sonntag, 19. Juli 2009 11:47 > To: kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: KVM vs Xen/OpenVZ for VPS hosting business > > Hello, > > Currently both Xen and OpenVZ are well known and mature product used > in hosting companies. > > How about KVM? What are the advantages if I use KVM as the VPS solution? If I would start a new hosting business I would offer container and full virtualization because of the following (just a few considerations): OpenVZ (or any other container virtualization in general): - you can run more VPS per physical host, but only Linux as guest - much better resource controls, but only for older kernels (last stable is 2.6.18) - very easy management tools for hosting scenarios - stable environment with third party management tools for hosting KVM (or full virtualization in general): - full guest support (windows, linux, bsd, opensolaris) - easier management tools compared to XEN - compete with high quality VMware ESX hosting offerings (include HA, failover, etc.) I would not choose XEN now for new business, as for me it is not clear if XEN is still here in such a prominent manner in a few years as most distribution moving to KVM. Br, Martin > > E.g. > > performance? > security? > maintainity? > > > I am not familar with KVM so want to know your opinion. > > Thanks. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html