[CentOS] Virtualisation
Ross S. W. Walker
rwalker at medallion.com
Fri Mar 2 14:58:46 UTC 2007
> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Harris
> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 8:56 AM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Virtualisation
>
> On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 01:44:19PM +0000, James Fidell wrote:
> > hardware is required. Also, my experience would seem to
> indicate that
> > some of the fully-virtual support in Xen and its associated
> tools is a
> > little rough around the edges. For minimal pain, VMware
> may well be a
>
> The Xen problems you mention sound similar to problems others have
> reported. A friend of a friend elsewhere has played with Xen
> in RHEL5b1
> and RHEL5b2 and gave up, sticking with VMware.
>
> > I've been a VMware user for about eight years and it isn't
> without it's
>
> I've been using VMware for a couple of years and am trialing the free
> VMware server on an older machine (Celeron 1200; why yes...
> it's slow!).
> So far the Centos kernel patches just require rerunning the
> setup process
> to rebuild the modules. So far so painless :-)
>
> > physical memory to specific VMs, so if you want each VM to have a
> > reasonable amount of memory, you need enough in the server
> for all of
>
> The new box has 2Gb of RAM just in case (4 times that of the
> box it will
> be replacing).
I don't know of anybody using it, but for a pure Xen environment how
about using rPath+Xen?
Build a minimal rPath host system with Xen support. The only downside
is you will need to find a Xen management interface for it. Would be
nice if a good web-based Xen management tool existed.
rPath should have the long-term support you are looking for and allows
you to roll your own services to build a custom appliance.
-Ross
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