Re: [tlug] linuxcon2k15 thoughts & topics, 3

[Christian Horn <chorn@example.com>]

Hoi,

On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 12:58:01PM -0300, fgs@example.com wrote:
> Christian Horn <chorn@example.com> wrote:
> 
> > # xen server booth 
> > Apparently the proprietary nvidia drivers do now allow 
> > "partitioning", so multiple xen guests on a hyper-
> > visor can share nvidia graphical cores.  Interesting
> > this first appears for xen and not kvm..
> 
> From "XenServer" I suppose you mentioned Citrix's, correct? They're
> fully open-source nowadays too. I use them extensively since 2010
> (http://xenserver.org/)

Which advantages do they provide over KVM or docker?
I heard Amazon also continues to use xen.  Would be interesting to
know if this is due to technical features, or just because other
technical solutions would require users to migrate to other images.


> On the "BTRFS" deal, Am I reading right you fear it "crashes before
> taking off" so to speak? 

More that its not taking off because there are still issues, and its
not improving because its not widely used.


> I mean, people will be discouraged to early
> adopt it. Sure it needs very large deployments for tweaks and
> corrections but that's it. Do you think fellow "SUSE" guys will back
> down after "BTRFS" being the default file system for "OpenSUSE". No, I
> don't think so.

Not sure.

cheers,
Chris