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Old 20-10-2009, 06:42 PM
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Originally Posted by netaddict View Post
Hello,

What is the differance in VPS between Xen and Virtuozzo.

My current VPS provider uses Virtuozzo however Crucial uses Xen.

What's the differance between the two and why would use use Xen over Virtuozzo?

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netaddict

Hi Netaddict,

I think Greg has pretty much summed it up. Virtuozzo is basically OS level virtualization, so you are still sharing most of the resources with other users on the node, and something that another user is doing on the node can effect you. It is also possible for providers to significantly oversell their servers when using Virtuozzo. With Xen this is not possible, and you can use 100% of all the resources allocated to you. The benefit is that Xen gives you more flexibility, as you can install and configure more of the OS level settings on Xen than Virtuozzo.
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