Hi all,
I have a couple of situations for which Xen or VirtualBox would
seem to be ideal. The first is for a Win2003 server running M$''s
database, and the second is for running a bookkeeping program
once or twice per month.
My question is: how do Xen and VirtualBox compare and contrast,
and which would be the better solution for the usage scenarios
described above (and why)? More generally, why would one pick
one technology over the other?
TIA,
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Rich Teer wrote:> Hi all, > > I have a couple of situations for which Xen or VirtualBox would > seem to be ideal. The first is for a Win2003 server running M$''s > database, and the second is for running a bookkeeping program > once or twice per month. > > My question is: how do Xen and VirtualBox compare and contrast, > and which would be the better solution for the usage scenarios > described above (and why)? More generally, why would one pick > one technology over the other? >Per my understanding, with Virtualbox, you can have: + An easy-to-use GUI tool + An acceptable performance running VMs + Do not require CPUs with AMD-V or VT-x feature to run While, with Xen, you can have: + SMP support + Better performance than Virtualbox with PV drivers - nic or disk + Live migration support Max> TIA, > >
Rich Teer wrote:> Hi all, > > I have a couple of situations for which Xen or VirtualBox would > seem to be ideal. The first is for a Win2003 server running M$''s > database, and the second is for running a bookkeeping program > once or twice per month. > > My question is: how do Xen and VirtualBox compare and contrast, > and which would be the better solution for the usage scenarios > described above (and why)? More generally, why would one pick > one technology over the other? > > TIAAFAIK, sun is projecting VirtualBox as a desktop virtualization solution and xVM (xen) as a sever virtualization solution. Your 2nd requirement seems to fit a VB use case. Unless we are talking of a huge database, you may want to give a try with VB for your first requirement as well. Thanks.