[volunteers] (forw) [web-team] Linode Support Ticket 9935651 - svlugmicah (svlugmicah) - Scheduled Migration for Sat Feb 17, 2018 @ 08:00 UTC

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Kevin Dankwardt (kevin.dankwardt at gmail.com):

> I am curious about moving from Xen to KVM.
> 
> Is this common these days?

It does seem so, in my experience.

> A particular issue with Xen?

More performance overhead, and a lot more security problems.

Here's is some Linode text about its Xen-to-KVM transition that I found
after about five seconds of Web-searching:
https://blog.linode.com/2015/06/16/linode-turns-12-heres-some-kvm/
https://blog.linode.com/2016/03/15/kvm-update/
https://www.cio.com/article/2937714/cloud-computing/why-linode-moved-to-kvm.html