[ale] VMPlayer 3 vs VirtualBox

[Damon L. Chesser]

On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 12:16 -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote:

SNIP

> Ok...  Hold the phone.  You just confused me.
> 
> KVM and OpenVZ are two different critters.  KVM is hardware
> virtualization while OpenVZ is container virtualization similar to Linux
> Vservers, LXC, BSD goals, Solaris Zones, etc.  The two are not related.
> Are you saying that, in addition to supporting KVM, it also takes
> OpenVZ?

Yes, Proxmox supports both KVM and Openvz.  If you are not going to use
Openvz, you can upgrade to a newer proxmox kernel and run newer KVM
features and bugs.

> 
> For the record, I'm about to move the last of my installations of OpenVZ
> over to LXC after getting burn on a couple of OpenVZ kernel upgrades on
> RHEL 5.  It'll me LESS painful to upgrade the machines to RHEL6 and get
> the VMs migrated to LXC than continue to fight with the out of
> source-tree patches that OpenVZ requires.
> > This is good because OpenVZ containers use almost no
> > resources just to run.  VMs reserve a lot of resources, but OpenVZ
> > containers reserve no resources.  For capacity-planning purposes, you can
> > probably overbook resources by 10x when using OpenVZ-style virtual
> > machines.  A caveat: my test server-farm are low-traffic, low transaction
> > level at the moment.
> 
> Yeah.  If it's Linux on Linux then OpenVZ / LXC containers are
> definitely the way to go.
> 
> > Wolf
> > The only issue I have found is that it appears to need root access, but
> > someone on the list could correct me (please, thank you).
> > 
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> Regards,
> Mike
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