Virtualization versus jails [was Re: Creating and copying jail images]

[Angel Martin Alganza]

Hello everybody,

On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 01:13:42PM -0500, Josh Paetzel wrote:
> I've been searching for a way to create and copy jail images around
> for some time now and I've found a solution that works for me and

Supposing one doesn't need to run different operating systems or even
different kernel versions of the same OS, are there any advantages of
virtualization (Xen) over jails?  Both can be copied, moved around,
switched on/off, replaced with almos 0 downtime, etc.  What do you
think about that?

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