Re: [Xen-users] Why adoption of Xen is high in VPS hosting/cloud providers

[Itamar Reis Peixoto <itamar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 8:46 AM, howard chen <howachen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Have been thinking this for a while, seems most popular/well known providers
> such as rackspace, aws, linode is using Xen or some sort of.
>
> What are the reasons it is so good for a hosting providers to use Xen?
> Especially when compared to competitive technologies such as KVM which
> RedHat has been promoting hard for a quite a while.
>
> Which factors are the main reason? Performance? Security? Isolation?
>
> Anyone mind to share?
>

I think both xen and kvm are great and the best ones, may be because
xen comes first into the market.

also xen doesn't require hardware virtualization to run linux virtual machines.

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Itamar Reis Peixoto

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