filistertoTechnology@lemmy.worldEnglish·5 months agoIt looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer • The Register(www.theregister.com)external-linkarrow-up1466arrow-down14message-square75 fedilink
arrow-up1462arrow-down1external-linkIt looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer • The Register(www.theregister.com)filistertoTechnology@lemmy.worldEnglish·5 months agomessage-square75 fedilink
minus-squareBeigeAgendaEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down0·5 months agolinkfedilinkI thought Xen and OpenVZ etc. became obsolete with KVM? But it’s probably for the best that Xen is still used.
minus-squareozymandias117Englisharrow-up1arrow-down0·5 months agolinkfedilinkXen is a type 1 hypervisor, KVM is a type 2 hypervisor It runs on the bare metal itself as dom0
minus-squareBeigeAgendaEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down0·5 months agolinkfedilinkDoh I meant LXC 🤦 instead of KVM.
minus-squareozymandias117Englisharrow-up4arrow-down0·5 months agolinkfedilinkLXC is for containers, rather than virtual machines I was just saying “obsolete” isn’t a good description; All three still have uses depending on your goals LXC is probably better for most people, and I think Podman is one of the best rootless container options
So is Xen.
I thought Xen and OpenVZ etc. became obsolete with KVM? But it’s probably for the best that Xen is still used.
Xen is a type 1 hypervisor, KVM is a type 2 hypervisor
It runs on the bare metal itself as dom0
Doh I meant LXC 🤦 instead of KVM.
LXC is for containers, rather than virtual machines
I was just saying “obsolete” isn’t a good description; All three still have uses depending on your goals
LXC is probably better for most people, and I think Podman is one of the best rootless container options