OpenVZ vs Xen
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008VPSLink have a useful page comparing their OpenVZ and Xen Hosting Platforms with some great graphics showing where the virtualisation layers are in each solution !
VPSLink have a useful page comparing their OpenVZ and Xen Hosting Platforms with some great graphics showing where the virtualisation layers are in each solution !
provide a variety of downloads and howto’s to facilitate use of the Xen Virtual Machine Monitor.
Jailtime.org have Linux distributions that can run as Xen guests out of the box, obviating the need to create your own custom filesystems. The filesystems on this site have already been tweaked to deal with Xen’s idiosyncracies, and are also designed to be lightweight and minimally divergent from the original distribution.
Oracle have just released pre-built para-virtualised Xen domu guests of Oracle Unbreakable GNU/Linux and Oracle 11g DB available for download:
There is an OpenVZ live-CD VZ VM server with VZ VM guests (based on CentOS or KNOPPIX) that you can download from http://wiki.openvz.org/Download_live_CD
And there is a quick start guide to read at http://wiki.openvz.org/Getting_started_with_OpenVZ_live_CD