[CentOS] Virtualisation

[Ross S. W. Walker]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Harris
> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 8:56 AM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Virtualisation
> 
> On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 01:44:19PM +0000, James Fidell wrote:
> > hardware is required.  Also, my experience would seem to 
> indicate that
> > some of the fully-virtual support in Xen and its associated 
> tools is a
> > little rough around the edges.  For minimal pain, VMware 
> may well be a
> 
> The Xen problems you mention sound similar to problems others have
> reported.  A friend of a friend elsewhere has played with Xen 
> in RHEL5b1
> and RHEL5b2 and gave up, sticking with VMware.
> 
> > I've been a VMware user for about eight years and it isn't 
> without it's
> 
> I've been using VMware for a couple of years and am trialing the free
> VMware server on an older machine (Celeron 1200; why yes... 
> it's slow!).
> So far the Centos kernel patches just require rerunning the 
> setup process
> to rebuild the modules.  So far so painless :-)
> 
> > physical memory to specific VMs, so if you want each VM to have a
> > reasonable amount of memory, you need enough in the server 
> for all of
> 
> The new box has 2Gb of RAM just in case (4 times that of the 
> box it will
> be replacing).

I don't know of anybody using it, but for a pure Xen environment how
about using rPath+Xen?

Build a minimal rPath host system with Xen support. The only downside
is you will need to find a Xen management interface for it. Would be
nice if a good web-based Xen management tool existed.

rPath should have the long-term support you are looking for and allows
you to roll your own services to build a custom appliance.

-Ross

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