We have switched for the same reasons one year ago. We have 50 physical servers and around 400 VM's on them, ranging from single hosts with RAID 1 internal storage to iSCSI solutions. On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Dan VerWeire <dverweire@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I switched from Xen to KVM a couple years ago for the following reasons IIRC: > > -Xen was stuck on an older kernel that did not have the drivers I needed > -Ubuntu decided to switch their focus to KVM as their main > virtualization package > -KVM had more solid Windows network drivers > -I personally didn't like the Dom0/DomU concept I just want my VMs to > be processes on the host just like any other process > -KVM was in the kernel which gave me a good feeling about the > longevity and support of the project > > I am a sys admin (among other things) for a wholesale distribution > company. We have 28 virtual machines on 3 different hosts. They are a > mixture of Windows and Linux. I am extremely happy with KVM and > Ubuntu's support of KVM. It is awesome to get new features like KSM > and Ceph block devices (which I haven't used yet but am very excited > about) as the kernel and KVM evolve. > > I can say that, in my experience, our VMs run more solid on KVM than > they did on Xen and even more solid than on bare metal, especially in > the case of Windows. > > Thank you KVM developers. > > Dan VerWeire > > > On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Mauro <mrsanna1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 10 February 2011 19:30, Nikola Ciprich <extmaillist@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> I switched from XEN to KVM long time ago, and haven't felt sorry since then... >>> Are You interestid in something in particular? >> >> Then.....I'm interested on your motivations to switch from xen to kvm. >> If it's important I use debian squeeze. >> -- >> 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 > -- 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
