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boot2docker vs Xen Orchestra: What are the differences?
What is boot2docker? Lightweight Linux for Docker. boot2docker is a lightweight Linux distribution based on Tiny Core Linux made specifically to run Docker containers. It runs completely from RAM, weighs ~27MB and boots in ~5s (YMMV).
What is Xen Orchestra? The Web Interface for XenServer. It provides a web based UI for the management of XenServer installations without requiring any agent or extra software on your hosts nor VMs.
boot2docker and Xen Orchestra can be categorized as "Virtual Machine Management" tools.
Some of the features offered by boot2docker are:
- Kernel 3.14.1 with AUFS, Docker 0.10.1, LXC 0.8.0
- Container persistence via disk automount on /var/lib/docker
- SSH keys persistence via disk automount
On the other hand, Xen Orchestra provides the following key features:
- Xen management
- Easy-to-use
- Fast
boot2docker and Xen Orchestra are both open source tools. boot2docker with 8.06K GitHub stars and 1.17K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Xen Orchestra with 233 GitHub stars and 89 GitHub forks.
Pros of boot2docker
- Lightweight43
- Use docker when it's not natively possible35
- Use it for fast demo without big image11
- Easy to use3
- Containers3
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