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From: hydra <hydrapolic@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xen on new install reboots by itself
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 03:59:42
Message-Id: CAG6MAzT14SEvu9kDSpHus8ZbAfHuqnNNq_69Tu98v=KZyC6MGg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] xen on new install reboots by itself by lee
1 On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 11:43 PM, lee <lee@××××××××.de> wrote:
2
3 > hydra <hydrapolic@×××××.com> writes:
4 >
5 > > On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 3:20 PM, lee <lee@××××××××.de> wrote:
6 > >
7 > >> symack <symack@×××××.com> writes:
8 > >>
9 > >> Other than that, unless you really do need full virtualization: I'm
10 > >> finding Linux containers to be far more manageable than virtual
11 > >> machines, and much more efficient.
12 > >>
13 > >>
14 > > Can you please post some more details?
15 >
16 > About containers?
17 >
18 > There's very useful documentation about them like
19 > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LXC ...
20 >
21 > What can I say? Virtualization with xen is like juggling with a set of
22 > black boxes each of which aren't exactly accessible; the
23 > documentation sucks, it's hard work to get it running and likewise hard
24 > to maintain.
25 >
26 > Virtualization with containers is basically as simple as running just
27 > another daemon.
28 >
29 > Which the "better" tool, or combination of tools is, depends on what you
30 > want to accomplish. You could use containers in a VM, too, or use
31 > virtualbox along with containers to run the odd VMs that require full
32 > virtualzation.
33 >
34 >
35 > --
36 > Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons
37 > might swallow us. Finally, this fear has become reasonable.
38 >
39 >
40 You mean the documentation at Gentoo about Xen sucks or the upstream
41 documentation? What information are you missing from there? Maybe we can
42 add the missing pieces for Xen being more accessible and easier to use,
43 what do you think? :)

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