[PVE-User] KVM vs Container - Why should one use KVM?

[Bruce B]

Thanks for all the great input guys. Seems like I will rung both KVM and
Container in parallel for sometime to test Asterisk reliability. That is the
beauty of Proxmox that allows me to have both simultaneously and to test it
out. I will post back in few months on this.

Thanks,
Bruce

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 3:39 PM, <flavio-pve at zipman.it> wrote:

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> Bruce B wrote:
> > Aside from limitations like one MUST run an .iso to install the OS, are
> > there any other features that a container VM can't do that a KVM can do?
>
> I switched all my openvz machines to KVM for some reasons:
> a) there was the problem with the openvz patch for 2.6.32 (I needed that
> version) and I think I cannot rely on an external patch for my "work".
> b) I needed full support for IPv6 but openvz containers had a lot of
> problem
> with it (at least until I switched; maybe today this is not true anymore).
> c) I encountered a lot of trouble with the networking management, i.e.
> firewalling, proxyarp, tuns, ecc.ecc. that made me crazy until I switched
> to
> KVM.
>
> I'm waiting for the support of an in-kernel-tree container architecture
> like
> lxc to retry the container approach.
>
> - --
> Flavio Visentin
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