server distros

[Dave Cramer]

Ok, so now my priority shifts towards virtualization technology.

I see centos uses XEN which supports paravirtualization, whereas KVM
does not. Comments ?

Dave Cramer
VP Software Development
Visible Assets Inc.
www.visibleassets.com



On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 12:25:27PM -0500, Mel Wilson wrote:
>> I did a bugfix upgrade on a Ubuntu Server once, and it seemed easy.
>> If VMWare hadn't been misconfigured it would have been seamless.  As
>> it was it made for a very long afternoon.
>>
>> Any warnings you can share briefly?
>
> I have seen what happens when you try upgrading one version to another
> of Ubuntu.  It has issues more often than not it seems.
>
> My wife was using Ubuntu at UofT for her machine there because that's what
> it came with.  It has had a lot of issues with upgrades over the years.
>
> One upgrade made X go away.  She was unimpressed.  I seem to recall she
> reinstalled from scratch to fix that.  Another time an upgrade changed
> the network port arrangement, taking the machine of the network.
>
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