virtualization in Ubuntu Server

[Ben Collins]

On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 18:55 +0200, Sander van Vugt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> I’m doing some research on Ubuntu Server as a potential platform for
> virtualization. It doesn’t seem that 7.04 supports Xen very well, the
> press release for 7.04 talks about features that allow for optimizes
> support under VMware. That’s not what I need, I need a server that can
> be used as a virtualization platform like the combination Red Hat/SUSE
> – Xen. 
> 
>  
> 
> So my questions:
> 
> -                     Is Xen in Ubuntu considered to be mature? It
> appears to me as a very limited Xen stack. If it is not mature yet, is
> it going to be mature soon?

Xen in gutsy (7.10) will be mature.

> -                     If Xen is not the way to go for Ubuntu Server as
> a virtualization solution, is there anything else that can be used in
> Ubuntu Server to use it as the platform to create virtual machines
> on? 
>  
> 
> Thanks  advance,
> 
> Sander van Vugt
> 
>  
> 
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