{"id":1124,"date":"2008-07-21T09:18:16","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T09:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/07\/comparison-between-hyper-v-and-the-xen-hypervisor-in-rhel.htm"},"modified":"2008-07-21T09:18:16","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T09:18:16","slug":"comparison-between-hyper-v-and-the-xen-hypervisor-in-rhel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/07\/comparison-between-hyper-v-and-the-xen-hypervisor-in-rhel.htm","title":{"rendered":"Comparison between Hyper-V and the Xen hypervisor in RHEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though choosing a hypervisor is only a small part of implementing a virtualisation strategy, much has been written about how Microsoft Hyper-V compares to VMware ESX &#8211; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/06\/microsoft-releases-hyper-v-to-manufacturing.htm\">there are some fundamental differences between those two products<\/a>. Architecturally, Hyper-V has a lot more in common with the Xen hypervisor (although they are not identical) and indeed XenSource worked with Microsoft to provide Linux support for Hyper-V and I&#8217;ve recently been alerted to the presence of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windowsserver\/compare\/ReportsDetails.mspx?recid=69\">a short white paper which compares Hyper-V and the Xen technology implemented in Red Hat Enterprise Linux<\/a> (the leading Linux distribution, which is not currently on the list of supported guest operating systems for Hyper-V). Despite being published by Microsoft, it seems to me to give a balanced view between the two products, although it should also be noted that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redhat.com\/about\/news\/prarchive\/2008\/virtualization.html\">Red Hat has announced it will be switching from Xen to KVM for future virtualisation support<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though choosing a hypervisor is only a small part of implementing a virtualisation strategy, much has been written about how Microsoft Hyper-V compares to VMware ESX &#8211; and there are some fundamental differences between those two products. 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