[CentOS] guest vms crash host systems

Wed Oct 5 16:02:27 UTC 2011
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Negative <negativebinomial at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>>
>> VMware's a possibility. Would I need to remove the kvm package?  Do I
>> have to keep libvirtd off?
>>
> You could use VMware server or player as an alternative to kvm under
> Centos.  VMware ESXi loads as the base OS, so you have to wipe
> everything and start over.  The latest release (5.0) claims that
> virtualization can be 'nested' - that is you could run kvm (etc.) on a
> guest, although performance probably wouldn't be great.

Any idea what the new version is based on? Is it still a 2.4 kernel (and
based on RHEL 3)?

      mark