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[Chris-QuadHost]

If you had a control panel that supported the following virtulization containers, which would you choose for VPS customers, and why?

• Xen
• QEMU
• KVM
• OpenVZ
• VirtualBox
• VMware ESX and GSX

Personally, I'd choose Xen or KVM as I've used them before. I'd like to hear your views on this.

[pmabraham]

Greetings:

For us, it was between Xen and VMWare with Xen finally winning.

In our case, I found XenCenter easier to use to manage VP's.

I did test OpenVZ/Virtuozzo, but it did not provide true virtualization. The file system was not standard; and there were other failure points when it came to interoperability with automation systems.

Xen and VMWare worked with everything that was thrown at them; so then it came down to a matter of personal preference.

Thank you.

[Chris-QuadHost]

Originally Posted by dynamicnet

Greetings:

For us, it was between Xen and VMWare with Xen finally winning.

In our case, I found XenCenter easier to use to manage VP's.

I did test OpenVZ/Virtuozzo, but it did not provide true virtualization. The file system was not standard; and there were other failure points when it came to interoperability with automation systems.

Xen and VMWare worked with everything that was thrown at them; so then it came down to a matter of personal preference.

Thank you.

Thanks very much. I think I'll be using Xen, although I'm not oo sure yet.

[vivithemage]

Xen or ESX, both are superior, I love ESX's control panels, and live migration features though.