Subject: Re: Xen2 vs Xen3: features and stability?
To: Luke Crawford <lsc@prgmr.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-xen
Date: 11/22/2006 19:56:03
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 10:31:44AM -0800, Luke Crawford wrote:
> [...]
> 
> so yes, I am strongly considering moving to NetBSD4; the big problem with 
> Xen3 is that it seems to still be something of a moving target (changes 
> were made between 3.0.2-2 and 3.0.3 that broke NetBSD and FreeBSD DomU
> support... NetBSD support is fixed now in -current and 4.0)

and 3.1 :)

> 
> Of course, the other option is to put the effort into figuring out what's 
> wrong with xen2-  at least then the specification isn't going to move out 
> from under you;  there is significant demand for stable NetBSD/FreeBSD 
> virtual servers.

Overall the Xen-3 tools are much better; also it doesn't use wide-open
TCP ports without any kind of authentification which is a big step forward.
There is also HVM which is great if your hardware supports it.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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