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by JackRabbitSlim 2328 days ago
If there is a show stopping bug I can throw VMWare under the bus.

If Xen has a show stopping bug I get to patch it myself.

Oh you mean technical reasons? None.
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yellowapple 2328 days ago
You could also go with Triton, in which case if there's a show stopping bug you can throw Joyent under the bus.

Also, I'm pretty sure if there's a Xen bug you can throw Citrix under the bus (assuming you're paying them for enterprise support).

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chousuke 2328 days ago
Well, you could buy RHEV and throw Red Hat under the bus. I don't know if there are enterprise-supported Xen distros.

Alternative exist, but VMWare has a lot of mindshare and their products are pretty good, so they're hard to beat.

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e12e 2328 days ago
> I don't know if there are enterprise-supported Xen distros.

Didn't Citrix buy xen a while back (or some part of it)? They had something called xenapp, now apparently "Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (XenApp & XenDesktop)"?

Not really the same as "a supported xen distro" I guess.

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