Connie Sieh wrote:
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Johan Mares wrote:
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On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Johan Mares wrote:
Is Xen included in SL5 ? If so, also with a maximum of 4 virtual servers ?
Yes. No. It is included, and it works, and there's no such limit (not even
in the upstream product - at least it's not a technical limitation).
I read somewhere that the Xen version included with RHEL5 is limited to
4 virtual servers (license). Maybe you have to pay to get more.
Yes RHEL5 has differnt prices from RedHat for different levels of
virtualization.
-Connie Sieh
Will this be different for SL5 or will it follow RHEL5 ?
Johan
Does anyone have any experience with Xen ? How does it compare to VMWare (the
It's quite different. And there are two modes of operation (para/full
virtualization) which are quite different again. Just give it a try and
find out.
free edition) ? Any good manuals on how to get started with Xen ?
Why not try the Virtualization Guide coming with SL5 ;-)
Tried it with Fedora C6 but either it tried to install itself onto the install
medium (my dvd player) (installing SL4, Debian, Ubuntu) or it disappeared
(Centos5) after installing.
Read the document named above. Learn about virt-install, virt-manager, and
the xm command (at least "xm list" and "xm create"). That should be all
you need to get started.
Hth,
Thanx for the reply.
Johan
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