On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 02:55:27PM -0500, Matt wrote:
Is anyone using 'user mode linux' to create virtual centos servers under a master centos server? Is there a package for this? Is xen or something a better way to go?
I use it all the time. I've written a tonne of my own wrapper scripts to help manage the process and they kinda work. I can build and deploy a new server in minutes.
You need to be careful of UML, though. The kernel must _not_ allow loadable modules, otherwise you have no host security at all. This may limit it for general purpose stuff. Performance isn't necessarily that good, either.
I actually wrote up some basic investigation a couple of months back where I looked at 1. RedHat (ahem, sorry, CentOS!) 5.4 64bit Xen 2. CentOS 5.4 64bit KVM 3. Citrix XenServer 5.5 4. VMware ESXi 4.0 5. VirtualBox 2.2 6. VMware Server (version unknown) 7. User Mode Linux (2.6.20.7 based kernel)
The writeup is at http://sweh.livejournal.com/362994.html