On 10/06/2011 12:58 PM, Rich wrote: > Its seems that I should switch then. I have 2 servers using Xen. > What is the procedure to conver them? Is there procedure I should use. > I have to use the same boxes I can not export vm's. > I've used the following links to migrate our office servers: http://www.gloudemans.info/migrate-paravirtualized-xen-to-kvm-under-rhel/ http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/troubleshooting-kvm-virtualization-problem-with-log-files/ http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/rhel-linux-kvm-virtualization-bridged-networking-with-libvirt/ In any case, be cautious, make backups and don't do this at 3:00 AM. Peter > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn > <dennisml at conversis.de <mailto:dennisml at conversis.de>> wrote: > > On 10/05/2011 06:16 PM, Ed Heron wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 10:55 -0400, Rich wrote: > >> Since the Xen and Linux kernel people have finally made peace > and Xen > >> is going to be included with the kernel, should I keep using > the Xen > >> virtual server with Centos or should I switch to KVM? I am running > >> Centos 5.7 now. > >> I guess the real question is can I still use Xen with Centos 6? > > > > The support end of life for CentOS 5 is listed as March 31, 2014 > > > (http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General#head-fe8a0be91ee3e7dea812e8694491e1dde5b75e6d). > There isn't any pressure, at this point, to convert your VM hosts > to CentOS 6 unless there is some feature you require. > > > > I doubt RH will add XEN support to RHEL 6. They don't like > to add > > functionality to an existing product. We can hope they bring > XEN back > > in RHEL 7. > > While Xen will probably return in RHEL 7 simply because it is part > of the > upstream kernel now I doubt it will be officially supported by Red > Hat. > Between buying Qumranet (http://www.redhat.com/promo/qumranet/) > and now > Gluster (https://www.redhat.com/promo/storage/) it is clear that > Red Hat > aims to become a provider of a complete independent virtualization > stack > and is unlikely to support "competing" products directly. > > The question is what does Xen offer that KVM cannot provide? > Looking at the > slides of the KVM Forum 2011 > (http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/KVM_Forum_2011) > there seem to be many interesting improvements in the pipeline so > at some > point the question really is why hold on to Xen at all when there > is not > real reason to? > > Regards, > Dennis > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org <mailto:CentOS-virt at centos.org> > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20111006/1a6bfb8a/attachment-0003.html>