[CentOS-virt] Recommendations, please
Pasi Kärkkäinen
pasik at iki.fiWed Jun 22 21:07:46 UTC 2011
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On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 11:07:14AM -0400, Steve Campbell wrote: > I've finally got a new machine coming that will allow me to play with > virtualization. What might most of you recommend for the type of > virtualization software I use. I seem to recall that xen might not be > the best choice due to it's lack of development. I could be wrong, > though. For the present time, all of the VMs will be Centos based. > > Any opinion will be appreciated. > Xen is very actively developed upstream at xen.org, and also the bits needed to support Xen dom0 in Linux were recently merged to upstream kernel.org Linux kernel! http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2011/06/14/linux-3-0-how-did-we-get-initial-domain-dom0-support-there/ The problem with RHEL6/CentOS6 is that Redhat bought Qumranet (the KVM company) and decided to only ship KVM host support in RHEL6. RHEL6/CentOS6 runs as Xen VM though, so you can use RHEL5/CentOS5 Xen host (dom0) and run EL6 VMs on it. -- Pasi
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