[Fedora-xen] Xen, QEMU/KVM or Vmware ?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

John Lagrue wrote:
> But I also see that others are choosing Vmware server to virtualise
> guests, and I wonder why. qemu-kvm is pretty good and fairly fast, so
> I'm really asking why people choose to use a 3rd party system instead;
> is it faster?

VMWare is a mature piece of software, and it's mature because it's been 
around for 10 years or so.

KVM is only about 1/5th as old :-)  KVM also requires that your 
processor supports virtualisation features, and at the moment these 
types of processors are not very widespread, although in a few years 
time they will definitely be very common.  Because VMWare (and Xen) run 
on more common hardware, you'll find more of them about.

> Coupled with that: is the virtual machine manager going to work
> properly with QEMU/KVM one day, or are the developers all assuming
> we'll go for Xen? And if the latter, when might we get an Xen kernel
> that's uptodate?

Yes definitely we want virt-manager to work well with QEMU and KVM.  If 
you have found specific problems, please check out the bug database 
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/).  Feel free also to join in contributing 
fixes if you are able.

Rich.

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