Good afternoon, Dave, Sean, all,
On Thu, 5 Jul 2012, Sean Dague wrote:
On 07/05/2012 04:01 PM, Tisdell, Dave wrote:
Great. Nice to hear about stuff in production before I "make the leap".
Any trick about installing xen virtual machines I should be aware of?
If you are starting from scratch at this point, I'd highly suggest looking at
doing KVM instead of Xen. That's what all the major linux distros (Red Hat,
Ubuntu, Suse) are supporting now, and are building their tooling around. It's
a better place to invest your time.
Especially if you're using RH/Fedora/Centos. A while back there
were some issues building a kernel for the OS that boots the machine
("dom0"). The patching wasn't really possible for a _long_ time and
Redhat Corp jumped ship to promoting KVM. The latest distro that had a
working kernel for the boot OS was so old it wasn't even supported. I
believe that's gotten better, but it's very clear that xen is no longer a
first class citizen.
Apologies if that sounds prejudicial - I'm just trying to warn you
that xen has been unfixably broken for a stretch of years in the past, and
that makes me nervous. I'm using KVM and have been very happy with it.
Cheers,
- Bill
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