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Hypervisor | Gist of It | Who Uses it? | Con for BonsaiFramework |
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KVM | Uses Linux Kernel as hypervisor. | Lots of hosting providers. | Came out before Xen, but sensing Xen got to look at to build better architecture. |
Microsoft Hyper-V | Not very clear if I need to have Windows Server installed. | ||
VMWare VSphere | Need specific network card. | ||
Xen | Install a base OS like Ubuntu. Then install Xen which then overrides and makes itslef the main OS and your original Ubuntu install a virtual machine called dom0 which you use to manage your other virtual machines. | Rackspace Cloud is powered by Xen with OpenStack. | |
XenServer | More complete product for large data (monitoring, orchestration ect...). Has GUI client for Windows. You can buy licensed support from Citrix. Simpler setup with pre-packaged CentOS 5.x as dom0. Citrx outlines very slight differences features btw Free and Enterprise. | Citrix. | Need specific network cardcards. |
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