<p>RHEL6 will not have xen for hosting. It could be a xen guest. If you are teaching with the concept of having guests under the RHEL host and you want your teachings relevant going forwards you will need to cover kvm.</p>
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<p>On 9 Aug 2010 19:35, "Paul Heinlein" <<a href="mailto:heinlein@madboa.com">heinlein@madboa.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> On Mon, 9 Aug 2010, Robert P. J. Day wrote:<br>> <br>>> as i'm reviewing the courseware for the rhel (centos) course i'm <br>
>> teaching next week, i'm going to ask the occasional question, <br>>> possibly technical, possibly more policy.<br>>><br>>> first one involves the choice for virtualization. the course has a <br>
>> short section involving virt using xen but everything i've read <br>>> suggests that red hat is concentrating on kvm for virt. thoughts on <br>>> that? i have the freedom to replace the xen section with one <br>
>> covering kvm instead.<br>> <br>> KVM feels less intrusive to me, but Xen configuration seemed to have a <br>> shorter learning curve.<br>> <br>> I don't really need a lot of performance in my VMs, so I can't comment <br>
> on speed; both do the trick.<br>> <br>> Red Hat has done a nice job with virsh and virt-install, which both <br>> work as advertised whether you're running Xen or KVM.<br>> <br>> My suggestion, fwiw, is to figure out if students are more interested <br>
> in maintaining an installed base of VMs or in installing a new VM <br>> infrastructure. Chances are, maintenance is more Xen-heavy, while KVM <br>> is more the way forward for new installations.<br>> <br>> -- <br>
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