Virtualization

[Scopehosts]

According to you which virtualization has been Liked most ? OpenVZ or XEN ? 

 

[Nett]

OVZ for private deployments and KVM for production VPS'es.

 

[MannDude]

OpenVZ for quick spinups of a VPS I'll use for development / things that aren't mission critical. KVM for anything production/important.

I don't think anything in my fleet is Xen based, but perhaps one exists.

 

[raindog308]

anything in my fleet

"My fleet"...I love that.

 

[drmike]

I'll take OVZ and maybe KVM if it isn't a fortune / lots more.

The rest of the options and other platforms, meh.  They exist.   We just don't see a lot of offers for such.  

 

[k0nsl]

I always preferred KVM, but do use OpenVZ for a few services/projects. As it has been said (more or less, anyway), cost factor can be a crucial point in what to pick. And as we know...OpenVZ often comes cheap

 

[winnervps]

Hmm.......I;d prefer Xen. But I think it's not apple-to-apple comparison, though.

 

[Profuse-Jim]

KVM seems to be the most popular now.

 

[msp - nick]

We're starting to use Xen soon - so I can't comment but OpenVZ has worked well for production use..

 

[SaadIsmail]

OpenVZ for non-production/un-critical things.

KVM for some serious missions/whenever need a Windows based VM

 

[Hxxx]

Debatable. Yet another pointless thread.

 

[TheLinuxBug]

Unfortunately I will disagree with the terminology that is being used here.  OpenVZ is not true virtualization in any sense, it is a fancy jailed shell.  True virtualization is seen in XEN and KVM where you use an actual separate containers for your server and get your own kernel.  

So to answer your question with the above in mind, KVM is preferred but XEN does have its uses as well.  

 

[KuJoe]

If I need kernel access or something fancy that is out of the ordinary I go with KVM, otherwise OpenVZ covers 99% of my needs with the added benefit of better performance.

 

[DomainBop]

Unfortunately I will disagree with the terminology that is being used here.  OpenVZ is not true virtualization in any sense, it is a fancy jailed shell.  True virtualization is seen in XEN and KVM where you use an actual separate containers for your server and get your own kernel. 

^^ Agree.  I'm not a big fan of containerization on shared servers so I tend to avoid OVZ unless nothing else is available for a reasonable price in a location (which is why the only OVZ VPS I have are a $1.54 monthly 256MB and $3.04 monthly 512MB in Sao Paulo...annual plan promos when Host1Plus launched in Brazil).  When I'm renting a VPS location is usually more important than type of virtualization so I have a mix of Xen, KVM, and VMWare (footnote: less than 20% of VPS's I use are managed by SolusVM).

When I virtualize my own servers it's Xen.  I'm currently using Debian Wheezy + Xen 4.1 for production and testing Debian Jessie + Xen 4.4 (I really <3 the new PVH mode in 4.4)...waiting for Jessie to go stable...VM management via command line...