On 13 May 2010 18:38, Dean Hamstead <[email protected]> wrote: > Stay away from Xen as IBM and RedHat have both abandoned it in favour of > KVM. > Stay away from vmware as its closed source and only developed by vmware :) > > KVM is in centos 5.4 and every other distribution (debian etc). Centos > 4.8 supports virtio for much faster io and network performance. > > At my undisclosed business we are running 14 physical machines, 128gig > ram 2x6 core amd, each with ~100 VMs. > > Pretty mind boggling stuff. But much more easily managed with KVM on > linux than that lock-you-out-make-you-use-our-gui vmware thing. > > Stuff like SElinux around vm's for example, and KSM really works :)
Thanks for the input Dean. Just to clarify - are you using KVM successfully on CentOS 5.4 (both Dom0 and domU) today? I got the impression it's in a "Technology Preview" (euphemism for "beta testing"?) stage and there are still missing tools in 5.4. I'd love to switch to KVM even though Xen works well for us simply because I keep hearing that its performance is much better, and the Xen in CentOS 5 is at least one generation behind the current version. Cheers, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
