[CentOS-virt] XEN and RH 6

Tue Nov 10 09:33:54 UTC 2009
Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi>

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.

-- Pasi

>   .. or your dom0 cluster will be unsupported ....
> 
> > We think about migration from Xen to KVM but the process could be 
> > complex and i don't know if kvm will equal Xen performance for 
> > production use.
> > Anyone as the same problem/question here.
> 
> I have do it some tests using KVM under rhel5.4 and perfromance it is very very high 
> ... but only for rhel5.x guests. For Windows versions or solaris/opensolaris systems 
> performance is ver very poor until they released virtio drivers for these platforms ...
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> CL Martinez
> carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com
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