We successfully run kvm on CentOS 5.4 as well, running a mix of windows XP, Ubuntu desktops, further CentOS 5.4 instances.
Currently, we use virt-manager to manage the instances, but I'll be looking at Convirture: Enterprise-class management for open source virtualization in the near future. On 13/05/2010, at 10:05 PM, Amos Shapira wrote: > 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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
