[CentOS-virt] RHEL 5.5 Xen fixes

Thu Apr 1 06:46:44 UTC 2010
Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi>

On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 09:08:42AM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 06:29:51PM -0400, Stephen Harris wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 09:19:34AM +1100, Norman Gaywood wrote:
> > > This may be a dumb/FA question but how do you run Xen 3.4+ with the latest
> > > Centos kernel?
> > 
> > And maybe another dumb question...
> > 
> > What's the difference between xen.org's 3.4.x series and Citrix
> > Xenserver 5.5?
> > 
> 
> xen.org 3.4.x is just/only the core hypervisor, while Citrix XenServer 5.5 is a full
> 'vmware esx-like' product.. aka full distro including multi-host pool gui management tools.
> 

And to add.. RHEL5/CentOS5 is a general purpose OS, which also includes virtualization (Xen).

Citrix XenServer is a *dedicated* virtualization platform, only built and tested for that purpose.

-- Pasi