filister@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoIt looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer • The Registerwww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square75fedilinkarrow-up1467arrow-down14 cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fans
arrow-up1463arrow-down1external-linkIt looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer • The Registerwww.theregister.comfilister@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square75fedilink cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fans
minus-squareBeigeAgenda@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agoI thought Xen and OpenVZ etc. became obsolete with KVM? But it’s probably for the best that Xen is still used.
minus-squareozymandias117@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoXen is a type 1 hypervisor, KVM is a type 2 hypervisor It runs on the bare metal itself as dom0
minus-squareBeigeAgenda@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 months agoDoh I meant LXC 🤦 instead of KVM.
minus-squareozymandias117@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 months agoLXC 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