Support of zen in LTS 10.04

[Liam Proven]

On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Silner <silnerwilner at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On 01/05/10 15:57, Peng Yu wrote:
>>> I heard that LTS 10.04 doesn't have very good support of zen virtual
>>> system. I'm wondering if this is the truth. If it is true, why zen is
>>> not supported well in LTS 10.04
>>
>> Wasn't there some politics involved, whereby Microsoft now has some
>> involvement with the Xen makers in Cambridge (UK) and many Open Source
>> projects decided to concentrate on the more independent KVM? I'm almost
>> sure I read that somewhere.
>
> I also heard that KVM is of a higher level than Xen. So KVM may be
> less efficient than Xen. Is it true? How much performance different
> there is in between KVM and Xen?

What does "of a higher level" mean? I am afraid I don't understand the question.

On machines with hardware virtualization support, Xen uses it. KVM
always uses it, that is all it does.

So on a level basis for comparison, the performance will be much the same.

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