@filister to TechnologyEnglish • 4 months agoIt looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer • The Registerwww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square75arrow-up1466arrow-down14 cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•4 months agoI thought Xen and OpenVZ etc. became obsolete with KVM? But it’s probably for the best that Xen is still used.
minus-square@ozymandias117linkEnglish1•4 months agoXen is a type 1 hypervisor, KVM is a type 2 hypervisor It runs on the bare metal itself as dom0
minus-square@ozymandias117linkEnglish4•4 months agoLXC is for containers, rather than virtual machines I was just saying “obsolete” isn’t a good description; All three still have uses depending on your goals LXC is probably better for most people, and I think Podman is one of the best rootless container options
So is Xen.
I thought Xen and OpenVZ etc. became obsolete with KVM? But it’s probably for the best that Xen is still used.
Xen is a type 1 hypervisor, KVM is a type 2 hypervisor
It runs on the bare metal itself as dom0
Doh I meant LXC 🤦 instead of KVM.
LXC is for containers, rather than virtual machines
I was just saying “obsolete” isn’t a good description; All three still have uses depending on your goals
LXC is probably better for most people, and I think Podman is one of the best rootless container options