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 !
Posts Tagged ‘xen’
OpenVZ vs Xen
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008Ubuntu 8.04 VPS are already available !
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008At least VPSLink are already advertising OpenVZ & Xen Ubuntu 8.04 VPS VMs from $8/m !
VPSLink CentOS VPS plans
VPSLink Ubuntu VPS plans
Virtualisation HowTo’s @ howtoforge
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008The howtoforge has a great set of virtualisation howto’s for Xen, KVM and more !
Xen Source Cool Configurations
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008Xen Source Cool Configurations is a blog / wiki of some of the coolest Xen configurations around !
Jailtime.org: Virtual filesystems for Xen
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008Jailtime.org
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.
XEN vm hwclock issues
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008It seems there are some issues with xen hwclock and centos and ubuntu xen vms !
- http://howtoforge.com/debian_sarge_xen_3.0.3_p7
- https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Xen
- http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/CoolConfigurations
- http://jailtime.org/download:centos:v5.1?s=hwclock
You may find that installing
# yum install system-config-date
and using timeconfig instead might help
Oracle Xen VM purchasing & pricing
Friday, March 14th, 2008You can purchase Oracle VM from the Oracle Shop
Oracle VM Premier Limited (one system max two cpus) @ $499
Oracle VM Premier (one system any num cpus) @ $999
Oracle Xen VM Server pre-built Xen VM guests now available
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008Oracle have just released pre-built para-virtualised Xen domu guests of Oracle Unbreakable GNU/Linux and Oracle 11g DB available for download: