@filister@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 7 months agoIt looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer • The Registerwww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square75fedilinkarrow-up1466arrow-down14 cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fansdrs_your_gme@lemmy.whynotdrs.org
arrow-up1462arrow-down1external-linkIt looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer • The Registerwww.theregister.com@filister@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 7 months agomessage-square75fedilink cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fansdrs_your_gme@lemmy.whynotdrs.org
minus-square@BeigeAgenda@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglish2•7 months agoI thought Xen and OpenVZ etc. became obsolete with KVM? But it’s probably for the best that Xen is still used.
minus-square@ozymandias117@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•7 months agoXen is a type 1 hypervisor, KVM is a type 2 hypervisor It runs on the bare metal itself as dom0
minus-square@ozymandias117@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish4•7 months agoLXC is for containers, rather than virtual machines I was just saying “obsolete” isn’t a good description; All three still have uses depending on your goals LXC is probably better for most people, and I think Podman is one of the best rootless container options
So is Xen.
I thought Xen and OpenVZ etc. became obsolete with KVM? But it’s probably for the best that Xen is still used.
Xen is a type 1 hypervisor, KVM is a type 2 hypervisor
It runs on the bare metal itself as dom0
Doh I meant LXC 🤦 instead of KVM.
LXC is for containers, rather than virtual machines
I was just saying “obsolete” isn’t a good description; All three still have uses depending on your goals
LXC is probably better for most people, and I think Podman is one of the best rootless container options