[ale] What's Better? Convirt 2.0 or virt-manager on CentOS 5.3 and Fedora 14?

[Scott McBrien]

KVM was added in 5.3, Red Hat had it flagged as non-supported tech preview.  In 5.4 it was a supported (ie. You could call rh about it) product.

The xen that comes with CentOS (and RHEL) is very very old.  If you're comparing it to newer virt implementations, I think you'll be disappointed.  The core VM management stuff is there.

-Scott

On Feb 16, 2011, at 11:06 AM, "Lightner, Jeff" <jlightner at water.com> wrote:

> Prior to KVM CentOS and RHEL did have XEN so you can do virtualization
> without upgrading - just not KVM.   (After KVM was introduced it has
> both XEN and KVM available.)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Brian Pitts
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 9:33 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] What's Better? Convirt 2.0 or virt-manager on CentOS
> 5.3 and Fedora 14?
> 
> On 02/15/2011 02:41 PM, gene.poole at macys.com wrote:
>> Which is the better product on my CentOS 5.3 and my Fedora 14 work
>> stations?
> 
> I wouldn't try virtualization on any CentOS release prior to 5.4, since
> that is when kvm and libvirt support was added. I'd prefer doing it on
> CentOS 6.0 (once that is released). Fedora 14 should be fine.
> 
> Here are some good resources I've found.
> 
> http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Virtua
> lization/index.html
> http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Main_Page
> http://libvirt.org/index.html
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvirt-users/
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/virt-tools-list/
> http://www.linux-kvm.com/
> 
> -- 
> All the best,
> Brian Pitts
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