XL vs Xend Feature Comparison: Difference between revisions
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Revision as of 22:26, 13 August 2012
The following compares the featureset of the xend toolstack vs the xl toolstack as of Xen 4.2.
xm / xend | xl | |
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Guest Types | ||
PV guests | ✓ | ✓ |
HVM guests | ✓ | ✓ |
Guest lifecycle operations | ||
Create, shutdown, reboot | ✓ | ✓ |
Pause, unpause | ✓ | ✓ |
List, rename | ✓ | ✓ |
Live migration and save/restore | ✓ | ✓ |
Guest device support | ||
Network devices (both para-virtualised and emulated) | ✓ | ✓ |
Block devices (both para-virtualised and emulated) | ✓ | ✓ |
Virtual framebuffer, keyboard and mouse (both para-virtualised and emulated) | ✓ (includes SDL & VNC support) | ✓ (includes SDL, VNC & SPICE support) |
PV console devices | ✗ | ✓ |
PCI device passthrough | ✓ | ✓ |
SCSI LUN/Host passthrough (PVSCSI) | ✓ | ✗ |
USB 1.1 device passthrough (using qemu xen traditional) | ✓ | ?? |
USB 1.1 device passthrough (using upstream qemu) | ✗ | ?? |
USB 2.0 device passthrough (PVUSB) | ✓ | ✗ |
VGA graphics device (GPU) passthrough | ✓ | ?? |
Device Model Support | ||
Qemu Xen Traditional Device Model | ✓ | ✓ |
Upstream Qemu Device Model | ✗ | ✓ |
Stub domain Qemu Xen Traditional Device Model | ✓ | ✓ |
Stub domain Upstream Qemu Device Model | ✗ | ✗ |
CPU pools | ✓ (undocumented in XEND man pages) | ✓ |
Cpupool-per-NUMA node. | ✗ | ✓ |
Control of CPU scheduler parameters | ✓ | ✓ |
TMEM | ✓ | ✓ |
XSM/Flash policy control | ✓ | ✓ |
Control of CPUID features exposed to guests. | ✓ | ✓ (syntax greatly improved) |
Managed Domains | ✓ | ✗ [ 1 ] |
Python code in configuration files | ✓ | ✗ [ 1 ] |
[ 1 ] Feature is explicitly not supported by xl, see XL Anti-Features
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