From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <13426df10805192122j3877dfbdyc507f15571cc89f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 21:22:11 -0700 From: "ron minnich" To: asenchi@asenchi.com, "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <8d9c091a0805192056q2df11104k133c084c6ed00a2e@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <13426df10805192022x7621438yc96f6b81b65a5e99@mail.gmail.com> <8d9c091a0805192056q2df11104k133c084c6ed00a2e@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Xen Installation Topicbox-Message-UUID: ab665652-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Curt Micol wrote: > Could you explain what 'turned bad' and why you no longer prefer xen? > This is just for my own curiosity, I'd like to hear your opinion. > I'll also begin looking through the archives to see if I missed > something there. > mainly, the over-use of python where C would do, with the concomitant mess of weird errors and untraceable failures. The xenstore was also a disaster, a half-way file system that never quite worked to this day. Add in XML-RPC, in python yet, and you have a gooey stew of obscure and hard to fix errors. We did a small distro with xen, and were glad to move to lguest instead. Much, much easier. Kind of sad, as I actually really like the Xen guys, but things just didn't go very well after v2. ron