KVM vs Xen support. (Was: server distros)
Scott Sullivan
scott-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
Tue Mar 6 22:21:46 UTC 2012
On 03/06/2012 03:59 PM, Dave Cramer wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Scott Sullivan<scott-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org> wrote:
[...]
>>>
>>> This http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Virtualization/Introduction
>>> suggests otherwise
>>
>>
>> That page hasn't been updated since 2010-12-02, so its too old to take into
>> account CentOS 6 at all.
>
> So is CentOS supporting XEN then ?
CentOS's primary goal is to follow upstream, which is RedHat Enterprise
Linux (PNAELV[1] for those who like the "He whom must not be named"
approach).
RHEL 6 is supporting KVM as their Visualization technology, ergo so is
CentOS 6. This in part has to due with the Kernel version which was
selected for RHEL 6. The Xen dev teams skipped over that branch of the
kernel for support. This came to great annoyance of a colleague of mine
who is heavily involved with the Cluster Suite for High Availability
Virtual Machines [2].
Any significant support for Xen on CentOS 6 will not be coming from
upstream.
[1]: http://www.pnaelv.net/
[2]: https://alteeve.com/w/2-Node_Red_Hat_KVM_Cluster_Tutorial
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