[Rdo-list] Why do I need KVM, XEN, if I can use Docker / LXC?

Kashyap Chamarthy kchamart at redhat.com
Tue Feb 18 12:32:43 UTC 2014


On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 11:42:21PM +0100, Arash Kaffamanesh wrote:
> Hello together,
> 
> Why someone shall use KVM, Xen or other hypervisors instead Docker / LXC
> Containers on OpenStack?

There's a lot of uninformed, substandard blog-posts talk making the
rounds on the inter-webs.

Rich Jones'(long time open source programmer working on Virtualization)
explains it clearly here:

  http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2013/06/19/the-boring-truth-full-virtualization-and-containerization-both-have-their-place/


-- 
/kashyap




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