On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 01:50:30PM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote:
On 06/04/2012 11:36 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
Xen PV has been rock solid for me :)
Maybe, if we ignore the fact that you seem to be familiar with the problem of xenconsoled failing and preventing guests from booting.
The el5 xenconsoled bug:
1) Affected only 32bit (i686) hosts running el5 Xen 2) It was fixed years ago on upstream Xen 3) It is already fixed in rhel5/centos5 4) It didn't affect 64bit (x86_64) hosts running el5 Xen 5) It was easy to workaround by killing+restarting xenconsoled
Xen is supported by Red Hat support in RHEL5.
Yes, and RHEL5 will be supported for several years. However, there does not appear to be a plan to support Xen in the future, after RHEL5 expires. It would be irrational to invest time and money into training on Xen with no expectation that those skills will remain valuable in the future.
There are other Xen-based virtualization solutions out there aswell with full support.
-- Pasi