Sorry for the top post, blackberry.

Well I like to be able to install my machines in the xenstore with 'xm new' and then manage them from there, but virt-install and virsh are useful too, so I just use CentOS base then replace their xen with the one from xen.org keeping libvirt and now I have the best of both worlds.

The commercial one isn't without gripes too. Like I wish they had developed a fully web based interface for creating and managing virtual machines like the one Microsoft has in their virtual server instead of the standalone java client. I never really like standalone java clients as it makes it one more thing you have to reach for when you need to get something done, when there is almost always a web browser available.

-Ross

----- Original Message ----- From: centos-virt-bounces@centos.org centos-virt-bounces@centos.org To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS centos-virt@centos.org Sent: Thu Mar 20 17:34:08 2008 Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] RE: [CentOS] Running CentOS 4.6 domUs on CentOS5.1 dom0 and domUscrash

Ross S. W. Walker wrote:

glues the Xen 3.0.3 user land tools onto a highly patched 3.1 hypervisor forcing the user to try and use their swiss army knife libvirt to manage the mess. Ugh! I just want Xen and to manage it through Xen!

I quite like the virsh and virt-install stuff included in the distro, I think xen tools themselves are quite pedestrian at the moment. Perhaps their commercial offerings are better - for me, the libvirt and virsh make Xen a lot more usable