If you want an all around easy to use tool that can manager containers (create on the fly, delete when unnecessary, etc.) look into vagrant. There are also options like xen and virtualbox but they are not so lightweight. All of them are in ubuntu repositories. Source: 11 months ago
On the other hand, EC2 was built in isolation by a team of two, Chris Pinkham and Chris Brown, working remotely from South Africa. The idea behind building EC2 was to allow developers to build and run their application on Amazon’s servers, regardless of what type of application it was. The plan was to build EC2 on top of an open source tool called Xen which made it possible to run several applications on one... - Source: dev.to / 12 months ago
There was of course a generation where Xen was the way to make kernel-level containers, but those kernels still had to communicate with a form of ABI. I barely used Xen so I can't say how many of the same concerns apply, but in any case, userland containers won out over kernel containers in the end, and I'm glad for it. Source: about 1 year ago
Qubes OS uses the Xen hypervisor as part of its architecture. When the Xen Project publicly discloses a vulnerability in the Xen hypervisor, they issue a notice called a Xen security advisory (XSA). Vulnerabilities in the Xen hypervisor sometimes have security implications for Qubes OS. When they do, we issue a notice called a Qubes security bulletin (QSB). (QSBs are also issued for non-Xen vulnerabilities.)... Source: over 1 year ago
It depends greatly on the implementation you use and the rest of the tooling you use. Using QEMU+KVM directly & raw is very different from using libvirt-backed (which abstracts over various other backends like Xen [virt-manager])(https://virt-manager.org/) (which is a lot closer to the VirtualBox experience) to make the whole experience easier and simpler). Source: over 1 year ago
Have you looked at Vagrant or Xen Project ? Source: about 2 years ago
Then I'd suggest that you should consider a different hypervisor. What you are proposing (i.e. a lightweight Host OS + Plus Hypervisor, with everything else being run in VMs), describes Xen (https://xenproject.org/) to a T. Source: over 2 years ago
As others have said, Proxmox. I think that would be a good choice. Other options: Xen KVM. There are also expensive enterprise solutions from Oracle, VMWare, & Citrix. Source: over 2 years ago
So the "Xen Project" (https://xenproject.org/) is mainly focused on helping "technical cooperation between Xen devs", without doing a lot to communicate about Xen itself. That explains a lot regarding outdated doc or user wiki, lack of great on-boarding and news about it. All of this, despite a pretty rich activity from a LOT of different companies on very interesting projects (just check the wide topics and... Source: almost 3 years ago
Paravirtualization approach modifies guest OSes to include optimizations and avoid problematic instructions (ex. Guest OS is able to see the real hardware resources). Basically, guest operating systems can detect their virtual state and actively cooperate with hypervisor to access hardware. This improves performance. The downside is that guest operating systems need substantial updates to run this way, and the way... - Source: dev.to / about 3 years ago
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