[CentOS] Xen or VMWARE on CentOS 5

Wed Feb 27 13:45:04 UTC 2008
Rudi Ahlers <Rudi at SoftDux.com>


Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
>
> I'm not a big fan of Redhat's version of Xen and use the Xen 3.2 
> packages from xen.org as it has better management features through 
> 'xm'. You will need to compile your own for 64-bit though as they only 
> provide 32-bit binaries by default and if you want to run Xen as a 
> hosting server you really must use 64-bit, but thankfully they provide 
> the SRPM for it which makes that trivial.
>
> As far as VMware goes. It works exactly as it does on Redhat 
> Enterprise Linux, so if you go over to the VMware forums and search 
> RHEL, those comments should apply equally well to CentOS.
>
> -Ross
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org <centos-bounces at centos.org>
> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
> Sent: Wed Feb 27 07:12:04 2008
> Subject: [CentOS] Xen or VMWARE on CentOS 5
>
> Does anyone out there have a comprehensive tutorial on installing 
> VMware and successfully managing virtual machines with either xen or 
> vmware?
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------


Hi Ross

I'm looking for the same thing, but you have "stirred" somethings up in me.

If I want to setup CentOS 5.1 64bit, and make it a XEN host, then 
install CentOS 5.0 / FreeBSD 6.0 / Fedora Core 7 32bit guests on it, 
would it work well?

And if you say it needs to be pre-compiled, can you please tell me howto 
do this? What / which files do I need, and how do I get them to work on 
a 64bit CentOS 5.1?
Currently I'm busy creating a custom installation CD for CentOS 5.1 
64bit, and would like to then include the re-compiled XEN components in 
my kickstart. The installation CD installs the bare minimum for CentOS 
to run as an OS, since we're using cPanel - which installs the rest

Kind Regards
Rudi Ahlers
CEO, SoftDux


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