[CentOS] Virtualization platform choice

Tue Mar 29 13:44:49 UTC 2011
Lucian <lucian at lastdot.org>

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 2:41 PM, David Sommerseth
<dazo at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On 27/03/11 11:57, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
>> Some may be bored with the subject - sorry...
>>
>> Still not decided about virtualization platform for my "webhotel v2"
>> (ns, mail, web servers, etc.).
>>
>> KVM would be a natural way to go, I suppose, only it is too bad CentOS 6
>> will not be out in time for me - I guess KVM would be more mature in
>> CentOS 6.
>
> I believe KVM was introduced in RHEL5.4, so I presume CentOS5.5 have a
> working KVM support as well, in addition to Xen.  Of course, it will be
> even better with CentOS6.
>
> For the impatient souls, ScientificLinux 6.0 is released - even though,
> discussions lately in this list raises some concerns regarding how good the
> binary compatibility is in SL6, compared to CentOS6.

If it's good enough for Fermilab/CERN then it's prolly good enough for
many (even most) people on this list, imho. :)