Greetings, On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu> wrote: > On Saturday, December 18, 2010 04:19:25 am Gerhard Schneider wrote: > So I'm very seriously considering transitioning from VI3 to CentOS 6 KVM; for my situation it might be doable, but I have a lot to learn about KVM > before I can think about it. Have a serious very look at RHEV. Mindblowing. But watch out: RHEL full-install that I did not contain bridge utils (brctl) which is the virtual and real nerve controller -- heart and neocortex former of any virtualization. I would also suggest very strongly that one should do HA first, get it right and then play around with virtualization. else a lot of frustration will result. In the same breath I would warmly warn against playing around the idea of real world *any* Virtualization on a single box. Inviting lotsa bother. Centos 5 has all of it and more just be very careful about not munging the kvm packages. exclude xen altogether if you want kvm. Its not funny to watch troubleshoot xen and kvm fighting for control over the real resources. both have, well, attitudes. I must thank the CentOS team from the bottom of my heart for their tremendous and humongous efforts under extreme heat and light of the community :). Regards, Rajagopal