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    On 10/06/2011 12:58 PM, Rich wrote:
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cite="mid:CABDj5P2kUuYdGkKTTVEzK4TsyuYyxEZcGFiF4Y=mgUO+-OPrxw@mail.gmail.com"
      type="cite">Its seems that I should switch then.&nbsp; I have 2 servers
      using Xen.&nbsp; What is the procedure to conver them? Is there
      procedure I should use. I have to use the same boxes I can not
      export vm's.<br>
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    I've used the following links to migrate our office servers:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.gloudemans.info/migrate-paravirtualized-xen-to-kvm-under-rhel/">http://www.gloudemans.info/migrate-paravirtualized-xen-to-kvm-under-rhel/</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/troubleshooting-kvm-virtualization-problem-with-log-files/">http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/troubleshooting-kvm-virtualization-problem-with-log-files/</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/rhel-linux-kvm-virtualization-bridged-networking-with-libvirt/">http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/rhel-linux-kvm-virtualization-bridged-networking-with-libvirt/</a><br>
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    In any case, be cautious, make backups and don't do this at 3:00 AM.<br>
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    Peter<br>
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        On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn <span
          dir="ltr">&lt;<a moz-do-not-send="true"
            href="mailto:dennisml@conversis.de">dennisml@conversis.de</a>&gt;</span>
        wrote:<br>
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          <div class="im">On 10/05/2011 06:16 PM, Ed Heron wrote:<br>
            &gt;<br>
            &gt; On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 10:55 -0400, Rich wrote:<br>
            &gt;&gt; Since the Xen and Linux kernel people have finally
            made peace and Xen<br>
            &gt;&gt; is going to be included with the kernel, should I
            keep using the Xen<br>
            &gt;&gt; virtual server with Centos or should I switch to
            KVM? &nbsp;I am running<br>
            &gt;&gt; Centos 5.7 now.<br>
            &gt;&gt; I guess the real question is can I still use Xen
            with Centos 6?<br>
            &gt;<br>
            &gt; &nbsp; &nbsp;The support end of life for CentOS 5 is listed as
            March 31, 2014<br>
            &gt; (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General#head-fe8a0be91ee3e7dea812e8694491e1dde5b75e6d"
              target="_blank">http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General#head-fe8a0be91ee3e7dea812e8694491e1dde5b75e6d</a>).
            &nbsp;There isn't any pressure, at this point, to convert your VM
            hosts to CentOS 6 unless there is some feature you require.<br>
            &gt;<br>
            &gt; &nbsp; &nbsp;I doubt RH will add XEN support to RHEL 6. &nbsp;They
            don't like to add<br>
            &gt; functionality to an existing product. &nbsp;We can hope they
            bring XEN back<br>
            &gt; in RHEL 7.<br>
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          While Xen will probably return in RHEL 7 simply because it is
          part of the<br>
          upstream kernel now I doubt it will be officially supported by
          Red Hat.<br>
          Between buying Qumranet (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
            href="http://www.redhat.com/promo/qumranet/" target="_blank">http://www.redhat.com/promo/qumranet/</a>)
          and now<br>
          Gluster (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
            href="https://www.redhat.com/promo/storage/" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/promo/storage/</a>)
          it is clear that Red Hat<br>
          aims to become a provider of a complete independent
          virtualization stack<br>
          and is unlikely to support "competing" products directly.<br>
          <br>
          The question is what does Xen offer that KVM cannot provide?
          Looking at the<br>
          slides of the KVM Forum 2011 (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
            href="http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/KVM_Forum_2011"
            target="_blank">http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/KVM_Forum_2011</a>)<br>
          there seem to be many interesting improvements in the pipeline
          so at some<br>
          point the question really is why hold on to Xen at all when
          there is not<br>
          real reason to?<br>
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          Regards,<br>
          <font color="#888888"> &nbsp; Dennis<br>
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