Getting started with Linux-VServer (Linux.com)

Posted Jun 24, 2006 21:42 UTC (Sat) by NightMonkey (subscriber, #23051)
In reply to: Getting started with Linux-VServer (Linux.com) by drag
Parent article: Getting started with Linux-VServer (Linux.com)

drag, you should write for LWN! ;)

Getting started with Linux-VServer (Linux.com)

Posted Jun 25, 2006 21:27 UTC (Sun) by ewan (guest, #5533) [Link] (2 responses)

You're right - he should. I'd certainly be interested in reading a longer
version of Xen vs V-server.

Getting started with Linux-VServer (Linux.com)

Posted Jun 26, 2006 6:35 UTC (Mon) by mef (guest, #38645) [Link]

Hello, we wrote a paper that compares vserver and xen further. The paper is co-authored with one of the vserver maintainers (Herbert Poetzl). The paper is available from:

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~mef/research/vserver/paper.pdf

Please take a peek at this paper. We try to make a case as to when one might want to use vserver vs. xen, and also devote multiple sections to evaluating the performance, scalability, and isolation properties of the two solutions. Feel free to send me comments/feedback/questions directly to via email, but of course I will also monitor activitiy here.

Best regards,
Marc

different one...

Posted Jun 26, 2006 22:23 UTC (Mon) by gvy (guest, #11981) [Link]

It's with a third one, but covering Xen and VServer too: http://kerneltrap.org/node/6492

(I'm currently with VServer -- both 1.x on x86 in production and 2.x on x86_64 being rolled out, but our kernel/security people do encourage to look at OpenVZ)