virtualization in Ubuntu Server

[Malcolm Yates]

On Tuesday 18 September 2007 17:55:07 Sander van Vugt wrote:
> Hi,
>

oops. sent too soon. Look at http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-jeos too. If 
you are looking to use Ubuntu to run in VAs / VMs this may help you.

>
>
> 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?
>
> -                      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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