KVM + Ubuntu HOWTO

[John Abreau]

On 5/24/07, Matthew Gillen <me-5yx05kfkO/aqeI1yJSURBw at public.gmane.org> wrote:

>
> I apologize if this was covered at a meeting, but could you elaborate a little
> on how KVM is different from Xen?  A cursory look at the documentation seems
> to use the same language (hypervisors and such) and architecture.  In other
> words, how is KVM "next gen"?
>

The meetings were about VMWare and Xen, respectively. We haven't had
a meeting about KVM.

My understanding is that KVM is built directly into the kernel, whereas
Xen and VMware are mostly in user space.


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