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Assessment
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| Hypervisor at Home | Gist of It | Who Uses it? | Compelling Pros | Con for BonsaiFramework | GUI Management Tools | Memory Management Notes |
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| KVM | Uses Linux Kernel as hypervisor. | Google Cloud. Lots of hosting providers. | Google participates to secure the Code. | VMM (Virtual Machine Manager) virt-manager | ||
| Microsoft Hyper-V | Not very clear if I need to have Windows Server installed. | |||||
| VMWare VSphere | Longest history in virtualization commercially. | 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. | Amazon. Rackspace Cloud is also powered by Xen with OpenStack. | virt-manager XenCenter (which runs on Windows) | |||
| 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 cards. | XenCenter (which runs on Windows) |
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Notes
Some good command lines to verify support for hypervisor - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Xen#During_installation_of_Ubuntu