On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 23:47 -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: > On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 02:16:07PM -0400, micah anderson wrote: > > On Sun, 01 Aug 2010 08:08:41 -0700, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote: > > > John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> writes: > > > > > > > One topic of interest to me is virtualization. We've been using Xen for > > > > awhile, and have had some issues with its state in squeeze, and are > > > > looking at KVM. There was a big discussion on -devel about this a few > > > > months back. I'd be interested in hearing what others are doing with > > > > virtualization and where we see it heading in Debian. Is anyone > > > > knowledgeable about these things here, and willing to share? > > > > I'd be interested in this as well, I'm using a hybrid of Xen, > > Linux-Vservers, and KVM. I have some understanding of the plans on the > > kernel-side and some experiences and problems I've had I'd be interested > > in sharing and learning from people. > > > > m > > Over time I've been doing a mixture of Qemu, VirtualBox, and now KVM. > Recent updates in VirtualBox (at least in Testing/Sid) allow for running > VMs in both VirtualBox and KVM at the same time (previously they > conflicted). > > The nice thing about VirtualBox is that it allows running any OS in it. > KVM is limited in what it will run (generally just Linux distributions, > AFAIK), [...] You are confused. KVM relies on hardware virtualisation and its guests should be able to run any OS that the host can run natively. Xen also now supports this as an alternative to paravirtualisation. On older processors KVM cannot be used and Xen is limited to running paravirtualised guests. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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