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How Does Xen Compare?
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Performance: 1-20% actual overhead (older claim: 1-5%)
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Scalability: 10s of Vms
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Memory overhead: Negligible for para. ~12MB per VM for full.
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Hardware-enforced fault isolation between VMs: Yes
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Ability to dynamically grow/shrink hardware resources: Yes
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Open source
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Commodity hardware
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Ease of deployment: Use YaST
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Support: From Novell