VMWare or Xen? Depends on Your Fluency in Linux   By Charlie
Schluting | Aug 31, 2009 Print ArticleEmail Article   • Share on
Facebook   • Share on Twitter   • Share on LinkedIn  You hear it
all the time: Xen is not ready to take market share from VMware
because it is not as mature a product. Many disagree, because
all the core functionality exists in Xen, but it isn't
configurable via a unified GUI. In this article, we explain what
maturity means and how you can decide which aspects are really
important to your IT organization.  Xen and KVM are built into
the kernel, and essentially provide the "hypervisor"
functionality similar to Vmware's virtualization engine. With
libvirt, the library for controlling virtual machines,
applications can be created to interact with the hypervisor and
running virtual machines. XenServer, owned by Citrix, is based
on Xen, but adds a complete GUI and other functionality similar
to what you would find in VMware, such as storage
virtualization. XenServer is less expensive than V