[Discuss] choice of hypervisor (was gracefully shutdown guests)

[me at mattgillen.net (Matthew Gillen)]

On 06/05/2013 12:13 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> Matthew Gillen wrote:
>> So basically at this point everyone has thrown their lot in with
>> QEMU/KVM and Xen is pretty much abandoned except for some researchers.
>
> Xen abandoned? Only used by researchers? Perhaps you've never heard of
> Amazon EC2 or Rackspace or Linode. They're only some of the largest VPS
> platforms in the world and they all run on Xen.

I meant to limit my comment to say more along the lines of "mainline 
linux distros have abandoned Xen", but I flubbed it.

Matt