Re: [CentOS-virt] Should I switch and if so what is the procedure

2011-10-07 Thread Grant McWilliams
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Ed Heron e...@heron-ent.com wrote: On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 01:46 +0200, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: ... The question is what does Xen offer that KVM cannot provide? Looking at the slides of the KVM Forum 2011 ( http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/KVM_Forum_2011)

Re: [CentOS-virt] Should I switch and if so what is the procedure

2011-10-06 Thread Rich
Its seems that I should switch then. I have 2 servers using Xen. What is the procedure to conver them? Is there procedure I should use. I have to use the same boxes I can not export vm's. On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn denni...@conversis.de wrote: On 10/05/2011 06:16

Re: [CentOS-virt] Should I switch and if so what is the procedure

2011-10-06 Thread Peter Hopfgartner
On 10/06/2011 12:58 PM, Rich wrote: Its seems that I should switch then. I have 2 servers using Xen. What is the procedure to conver them? Is there procedure I should use. I have to use the same boxes I can not export vm's. I've used the following links to migrate our office servers:

Re: [CentOS-virt] Should I switch and if so what is the procedure

2011-10-06 Thread Jerry Amundson
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn denni...@conversis.de wrote: On 10/05/2011 06:16 PM, Ed Heron wrote: On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 10:55 -0400, Rich wrote: Since the Xen and Linux kernel people have finally made peace and Xen is going to be included with the kernel, should

Re: [CentOS-virt] Should I switch and if so what is the procedure

2011-10-05 Thread Rich
How hard is it to switch from Xen to KVM? On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Manuel Wolfshant wo...@nobugconsulting.rowrote: On 10/05/2011 05:55 PM, Rich wrote: Since the Xen and Linux kernel people have finally made peace and Xen is going to be included with the kernel, should I keep using

Re: [CentOS-virt] Should I switch and if so what is the procedure

2011-10-05 Thread Nehemiah
you recreate the VIM and export the disks. -- Nehemiah I. Dacres Saint Louis University: Advanced Technology Group Linux System Administrator Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig) On Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Rich wrote: How hard is it to switch from Xen to

Re: [CentOS-virt] Should I switch and if so what is the procedure

2011-10-05 Thread Manuel Wolfshant
On 10/05/2011 06:06 PM, Rich wrote: How hard is it to switch from Xen to KVM? http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6-Beta/html/Virtualization_Getting_Started_Guide/ ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org

Re: [CentOS-virt] Should I switch and if so what is the procedure

2011-10-05 Thread Eric Searcy
On 10/5/11 8:02 AM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: I doubt that xen will be included as an option for RHEL 6 any time soon. So neither will it be for CentOS 6. not impossible that CentOS could have it as a value-add: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/2011-July/002554.html I'm still

Re: [CentOS-virt] Should I switch and if so what is the procedure

2011-10-05 Thread Ed Heron
On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 10:55 -0400, Rich wrote: Since the Xen and Linux kernel people have finally made peace and Xen is going to be included with the kernel, should I keep using the Xen virtual server with Centos or should I switch to KVM? I am running Centos 5.7 now. I guess the real

Re: [CentOS-virt] Should I switch and if so what is the procedure

2011-10-05 Thread Peter Peltonen
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Ed Heron e...@heron-ent.com wrote:  There was some discussion about producing RPMs to add XEN support into CentOS 6, but I haven't seen any status updates, recently. I am succesfully using the dom0 EL6 kernel from:

Re: [CentOS-virt] Should I switch and if so what is the procedure

2011-10-05 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 10/05/2011 06:16 PM, Ed Heron wrote: On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 10:55 -0400, Rich wrote: Since the Xen and Linux kernel people have finally made peace and Xen is going to be included with the kernel, should I keep using the Xen virtual server with Centos or should I switch to KVM? I am running