Re: [libvirt] libvirt vs XenAPI
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 01:49:53PM +0100, atif bajwa wrote:
Thanks,
With Xen 3.3, the Xen Client Initiative (XCI) is out, a Xen.org community
effort to accelerate and coordinate the development of fast, free,
compatible embedded Xen hypervisors for laptops, PCs and PDAs.
Don't you think the XenApi or similar technologies be right choice for
remote management of these.
As developers of libvirt, we believe that users, admins & developers are
best served by an API which is independant of the underlying virtualization
technology. The choice of which hypervisor to use is a deployment question,
and as such applications should not be looked into one particular choice.
XenAPI as an application development API will irrevocably lock you into
the Xen hypervisor.
Daniel
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