On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 11:07:14AM -0400, Steve Campbell wrote:
I've finally got a new machine coming that will allow me to play with virtualization. What might most of you recommend for the type of virtualization software I use. I seem to recall that xen might not be the best choice due to it's lack of development. I could be wrong, though. For the present time, all of the VMs will be Centos based.
Any opinion will be appreciated.
Xen is very actively developed upstream at xen.org, and also the bits needed to support Xen dom0 in Linux were recently merged to upstream kernel.org Linux kernel!
http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2011/06/14/linux-3-0-how-did-we-get-initial-do...
The problem with RHEL6/CentOS6 is that Redhat bought Qumranet (the KVM company) and decided to only ship KVM host support in RHEL6.
RHEL6/CentOS6 runs as Xen VM though, so you can use RHEL5/CentOS5 Xen host (dom0) and run EL6 VMs on it.
-- Pasi