(off topic) On Jun 17, 2011, at 1:16 PM, Scott Dowdle wrote:
> Just to clarify... Red Hat's virtualization entitlement is for > management/support from RHN. The way they sell RHEL... you can have 1 VM, 4 > VMs or unlimited VMs. When I say VMs there I mean supported RHN subscribed > RHEL installs where you register them with RHN and they get updates like any > RHEL box would. So you are affectively getting 2, 5 or unlimited RHEL update > entitlements. This is done by installing an additional package or two in the > RHEL VM, and registering it with RHN so it knows it is a VM and RHN knows > which physical host it is associated with. > > If you want to run any number of virtual non-RHEL OSes, go for it. They are > not accounted for. The only thing accounted for are RHN subscriptions by > physical or virtual machines. It isn't like virt-manager phones home... it > does not. While I suspect that yes, the system won't stop you from doing this, I did hear from a Red Hat account manager when I was pricing out RHEL that you are supposed to purchase for the total number of guests of any operating system, not just RHEL. Or maybe I was misinformed. Anybody else familiar with this? Eric _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
