The future role of Xen in Linode
I don't participate in the beta, so maybe this is already clear to testers.
What's the plan of Linode to use Xen in the future ? Will there be another seperate hosting plan with Xen , or put Xen under UML ?
I plan to upgrade my plan, but I'll wait and see what will be there for a while.
ywliu
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@tierra:
I don't want to say anything for sure, but it sounds like Chris is pretty determined to move all of Linode over to Xen after a few bugs get worked out.
Well, I wonder if moving to Xen would make it more possible to provide a snapshot-like backup service ? Is this functionality already in the beta ?
ywliu
@ywliu:
@tierra:I don't want to say anything for sure, but it sounds like Chris is pretty determined to move all of Linode over to Xen after a few bugs get worked out.
Well, I wonder if moving to Xen would make it more possible to provide a snapshot-like backup service ? Is this functionality already in the beta ?
:) ywliu
How would Xen make that easier? UML uses disk images, Xen uses LVM.
If anything, I think making backups of the whole node would be easier under UML.