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What are the major differences in running XEN supported releases ISO vs using XEN installed on top of a *nix based operating system? Are there any pros or cons in performance and usability?
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as explained by mnkhawaja, XenServer by citrix is an optimized, ready to use solution with the option to buy professional (and really helpful) support. A really enterprise solution like VMware.
But the citrix xensever has some hardware-limitations.
The new XenServer6.2 from Citrix is completely free without big functionality-restricions (Support and Auto-Updates only)

The xen packages are more flexible regarding the Host OS and Hardware.
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Is the support and auto-updates availible for xen on fedora linux or other distro?
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Each distro has update utility and yes, Xen updates are included.  If anyone is thinking of implementing Xen, I suggest to use the one provided by Citrix.
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Surely there would be some advantages with using a prebuilt kernal from a main distro. What would be those advantages?
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You could use a distro like Centos, Suse, etc. if you want additional services running on the same server (ie. DNS, Apache, FTP).
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Ahh now it makes sense! Additional services it seems that that would be a small advantage... when you could simply run those services on a virtual machine.