What hypervisor do people use most for OpenStack?

answered 2013-05-15 06:27:44 -0600

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updated 2013-05-15 06:29:49 -0600

The User Committee's recent survey of 400+ cloud operators reveals the beginning of the answer ...

In slide 16, a hypervisor breakdown is given: http://www.openstack.org/summit/portland-2013/session-videos/presentation/openstack-user-committee-update-and-survey-results

KVM 71% ESX 8% Xen 8% XenServer 5% LXC 5% Hyper-V 3%

According to https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/HypervisorSupportMatrix , the supported hypervisors are: XenServer/XCP, KVM, QEMU, LXC, ESXi/VC, Hyper-V, PowerVM and some "bare metal" support.

Everyone should consider filling out the survey at https://www.openstack.org/user-survey/ !

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Does Openstack support VirtualBox?

comiq ( 2013-07-22 17:52:54 -0600 )edit

This survey was updated in September 2013, and the results are now: KVM 64% Xen 10% ESX 8% QEMU 5% XenServer 4% LXC 4% Hyper-V 2% Bare Metal 2% OpenVZ 1%

fifieldt ( 2013-11-13 22:10:45 -0600 )edit

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