[CentOS-virt] XEN and RH 6

Tue Nov 10 10:45:44 UTC 2009
Frederic SOULIER <frederic.soulier at univ-tlse1.fr>

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 ?

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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