[CentOS] xen in production servers

Thu Oct 11 15:36:38 UTC 2007
Daniel de Kok <danieldk at pobox.com>

On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 12:28 -0300, Roberto Pereyra wrote:
> Is virtualization (Xen) in CentOS stable for big developments ?
> 
> Somebody is using it for important servers ?

We use it for some (web) server isolation. I currently do manual updates
of Xen-related stuff, since there still is a bug that affects us
(#1999). I think there were some other problems with the network scripts
as well. But as far as I recall these problems will be fixed in 5.1.

Some machines also have problems with more than one vcpus in a domU (see
the recent discussion on the centos-virt list).

5.1 will have some useful improvements over 5.0 (e.g. support for
running i386 domUs with a x86_64 hypervisor/dom0).

-- Daniel