11 engineers on Hacker News describe using Xen first-hand: 2 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“My systems admin was an early adopter of Xen. That shop ran like a dream... devs could come in and have a new environment update in place”
endorse · production · zer00eyz · 2024-03-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Under Xen, the cost of reading CLOCK_MONOTONIC was a few orders of magnitude higher than reading the TSC.”
regret · production · AbacusAvenger · 2018-09-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“When Xen came around, we switched to that, because it made more sense for us (and for our customers): more control”
endorse · production · jpetazzo · 2013-06-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“When we switched from Xen to KVM I had to show ROI”
neutral · production · bandrami · 2026-06-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My adventure down this path started when XEN was the new hotness and it was being run on dell hardware.”
neutral · personal · zer00eyz · 2024-04-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Not Devuan, normal vanilla Debian (and one Debian-Xen VM host).”
neutral · personal · denton-scratch · 2021-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run Multics-like OSes as guests under Xen, not CMS-like.”
neutral · production · msla · 2020-10-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we started to have issues with kernel panics on machines we used with xen.”
neutral · production · _x5tx · 2020-06-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use XEN, that might be nice.”
neutral · production · apinstein · 2011-10-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“a straight forward Xen VPS host at data centers in Dallas and NYC”
neutral · production · bradleyland · 2011-06-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run Xen on remote servers. We found out that our 3 year old storage hardware had some firmware conflict with Xen”
neutral · production · netpenthe · 2011-04-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?