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Virtuozzo vs Xen: What are the differences?
Virtuozzo: An operating system-level server virtualization solution. It is an operating system-level server virtualization solution designed to centralize server management and consolidate workloads, which reduces overhead by reducing the number of physical servers required. Organizations use it for server consolidation, disaster recovery, and server workload agility; Xen: Advancing virtualization in a number of different commercial and open source applications. It is a hypervisor using a microkernel design, providing services that allow multiple computer operating systems to execute on the same computer hardware concurrently. It was developed by the Linux Foundation and is supported by Intel.
Virtuozzo and Xen can be primarily classified as "Virtualization Platform" tools.
Some of the features offered by Virtuozzo are:
- System containers
- Live migration in userspace
- Disc encryption
On the other hand, Xen provides the following key features:
- Xen 4.10 or Newer
- Archive
- Overview
Xen is an open source tool with 208 GitHub stars and 152 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Xen's open source repository on GitHub.
