[CentOS-virt] XEN and RH 6
Pasi Kärkkäinen
pasik at iki.fi
Tue Nov 10 12:08:44 UTC 2009
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:45:44AM +0100, Frederic SOULIER wrote:
> Correct me if i'm wrong.
> If rhel6 propose domU version that would say that a dom0 rhel5.X version
> will be able to run rhel6 domU ?
>
Yes. That's how I've understood things.
RHEL 5.4 can run already today Fedora 12 Xen PV domU. RHEL6 will be based on F12 (afaik).
-- Pasi
> Pasi Kärkkäinen a écrit :
> > 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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> Frederic Soulier
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