[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] xen vs. vserver
> In your faq and performance comparisons I don't see anything about the > differences between xen & vserver. What is the difference. What will I > get using xen? I would expect the performance difference between vserver and native Linux to be virtually nil, so imagine all the Linux bars in the benchmarks were for vservers. Xen offers a whole load of other features, over vservers: * Stronger resource isolation between VMs (last I heard, some of this was available for vservers with additional patching but I think Xen's approach is more comprehensive) - VMs are scheduled pre-emptively - there are strict controls on VM memory usage - processes in one VM can't use all the file descriptors on the system and thus deny service to processes in another VM - etc, etc. * Stronger security guarantees - kernel exploits in one virtual machine do not compromise the other virtual machines on the system * Live migration of virtual machines - move running virtual machines to another host without stopping them * Suspend / resume of virtual machines - pickle a virtual machine's state to disk and resume it later * Run a different (user-specified, if you want) kernel in each virtual machine. These may be different versions of the Linux kernel, or other OSs such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, Plan9. This does not imply any extra trust of the user concerned. * Give a single virtual machine multiple IP addresses on multiple virtual interfaces * A couple of less commonly used features that we hope to expand upon are: - vnets (secure virtual link-layer networks that may involve multiple virtual machines on multiple hosts) - driver domains (sandboxed, restartable device drivers so that driver faults won't bring down the machine) > I know several who are using vserver and have also tried it myself. I > probably also try xen ;-) Personally I really like both Xen and vservers. I think they're complimentary technologies - it should be possible (with a bit of patching) to run vservers within a Xen virtual machine. HTH, Mark > Please reply directly to me, i'm not the list > > Regards > Hasse H. Johansen > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel
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