On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 09:33:42AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i'm being offered the chance to teach an admin course based on RHEL > 5.4, so i'll probably just do it under CentOS 5.4, but one of the > chapters deals with the virtualization facilities that come with 5.4. > > even though that's the latest release of RHEL/CentOS, it's still > fairly far behind the curve in terms of recent virtualization > developments as compared to fedora 12. the client is currently using > vmware, so it's not clear they even *care* about the native > virtualization features of RHEL.
The KVM based virtualization in RHEL-5.4 is not nearly so far behind Fedora as you might think. The libvirt mgmt stack in RHEL-5.4 was rebased to be near parity with Fedora 11, and KVM in RHEL-5.4 is also pretty close to that using what's best described as a hybrid of kvm-83 and kvm-84. > in any case, is there any real value in discussing the > virtualization in RHEL 5.4, since the other two options are: > > 1) blow off virt completely as explained in the manual, or > 2) switch to perhaps f12 just for that to show what's available > *today* > > thoughts? no matter what the decision is, i can't see covering old > virtualization technology being of much use. Anything learnt by using libvirt + KVM in RHEL-5.4 will certainly be very relevant to usage of libvirt + KVM in Fedora 12 and RHEL-6, and vica-verca, so I wouldn't right it off was not worth while just because F12 is newer Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| _______________________________________________ Fedora-virt mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-virt
