Overrated? If I had to pick a level 1 hypervisor for a production environment id...

tasubotadas · on Feb 4, 2020

What makes it so good?

JackRabbitSlim · on Feb 4, 2020

If there is a show stopping bug I can throw VMWare under the bus.

If Xen has a show stopping bug I get to patch it myself.

Oh you mean technical reasons? None.

yellowapple · on Feb 4, 2020

You could also go with Triton, in which case if there's a show stopping bug you can throw Joyent under the bus.

Also, I'm pretty sure if there's a Xen bug you can throw Citrix under the bus (assuming you're paying them for enterprise support).

chousuke · on Feb 4, 2020

Well, you could buy RHEV and throw Red Hat under the bus. I don't know if there are enterprise-supported Xen distros.

Alternative exist, but VMWare has a lot of mindshare and their products are pretty good, so they're hard to beat.

e12e · on Feb 4, 2020

> I don't know if there are enterprise-supported Xen distros.

Didn't Citrix buy xen a while back (or some part of it)? They had something called xenapp, now apparently "Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (XenApp & XenDesktop)"?

Not really the same as "a supported xen distro" I guess.