[Users] ovzkernel-xen ?

[Gregor Mosheh]

Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 04:22:01PM -0600, Gregor Mosheh wrote:
>> My question is why you'd want to use both. What particular need or 
>> deployment scenario would require Xen and OpenVZ together?

> Well, that's... a bit unimaginative :|

I'm trying to get an idea of what creative needs and solutions are being 
handled with nested virtualization, not trawling for insults. But thanks 
anyway. :)


> Here's a quick example: you have one
> big machine but more than one group of users

Interesting. So you hand out a Xen instance, expecting the owner of the 
DomU to create OpenVZ instances within it? That's kinda clever, I guess, 
if there's some practical use for it.

I'm dying to know the real-life scenario underlying this, why you don't 
hand someone either a Xen or a OpenVZ, but a Xen so they can create 
their own OpenVZs. Do you have multiple IT departments, for example, 
working on different products, and you want them to self-administer the 
creation of VEs? Do you have some 128-CPU cluster running Xen and you 
sell Xen Doms so they can resell OpenVZ VEs?

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