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Xen versus VirtualBox

Xen versus VirtualBox

Posted Aug 14, 2008 5:00 UTC (Thu) by dowdle (subscriber, #659)
In reply to: Xen versus VirtualBox by leighbb
Parent article: Sun's FOSS VirtualBox hits the sweet spot for Linux (ITWire)

If you are doing a lot of Linux on Linux virtualization, check out the two OS Virtualization
systems available for Linux: 1) OpenVZ and 2) Linux-VServer.  Both are good but my personal
preference is OpenVZ.

Xen and KVM work well... but... OS Virtualization is much lighter and more efficient than
machine / hardware virtualization and provides much greater density and scalability.  The
large number of dynamic resource management parameters offered by OS Virtualization are a big
bonus too.


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