Thanks. I started looking at KVM too. My laptop doesn't have the hardware virtualization for testing but centos has been the plan as the boot os so kvm may be the answer. Dave
On 7/5/12, William Stearns <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "Unix _is_ user friendly. It's just very selective about who its > friends are. And sometimes even best friends have fights." > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > William Stearns ([email protected], tools and papers: www.stearns.org) > Top-notch computer security training at www.sans.org , www.giac.net > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- David Tisdell. Music Teacher Browns River Middle School 20 River Road Jericho, VT 05465 [email protected] (e-mail) -- This e-mail may contain information protected under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). If this e-mail contains student information and you are not entitled to access such information under FERPA, please notify the sender. Federal regulations require that you destroy this e-mail without reviewing it and you may not forward it to anyone.
