-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@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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