[CentOS-virt] XEN and RH 6
Pasi Kärkkäinen
pasik at iki.fi
Tue Nov 10 10:14:42 UTC 2009
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:39:35AM +0100, carlopmart wrote:
> Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:11:24AM +0100, carlopmart wrote:
> >> Frederic SOULIER wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Do you really think that RHEL6 will not include dom0 version ?
> >> Yes, Xen Dom0 will be never supported from RHEL6, onlu domU ...
> >>> It seems that KVM will be the favorite for redhat virtualisation but i
> >>> think Xen is actually largely deployed.
> >>> We have here a "cluster" of ten Xen centos 5.4 dom0 and i'm asking what
> >>> it will become with RHEL6 if there is no more dom0 version.
> >> Well, you have several options:
> >>
> >> - Migrate to KVM
> >> - Migrate to Oracle VM
> >> - Migrate to Windows Hyper-V
> >> - Migrate to VMware
> >>
> >
> > Or to Citrix XenServer.
> > Or run your own dom0 setup.. if self-support is an option :)
> > Or keep running RHEL5.x on dom0, that'll be supported for a long time
> > still.
> >
> Still it isn't official, but Citrix XenServer will disappears soon ... It will be
> integrated under Microsoft Hyper-V ....
>
Uhm.. I don't believe this. Where did you read that?
Citrix XenServer was opensourced last week, or the hypervisor+tools
part, the xencenter management interface remains closed source (but it
can also manage hyper-v).
> IMHO, it isn't a good option to maintain domO virt servers based on CentOS or RHEL
> now ... It is the time to migrate to another solutions ...
>
RHEL5, with Xen, will be fully supported by Redhat until 2014. They have
clearly stated that many times.
-- Pasi
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