Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-18 Thread Gabriel Tabares
Also, if you assign MACs to your VMs at installation time (I do, for DHCP- and DNS-related reasons), you should note that KVM MACs lives in a different namespace: 54:52:00:xx:xx:xx. You can change the allocated MAC address by editing the files in /etc/libvirt/qemu . Edit the mac

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-18 Thread Gabriel Tabares
The biggest single up-front difference for me on CentOS machines was that KVM hosts default to NAT on a private bridge while Xen hosts default to straight bridging. Some network tweaks are necessary to get KVM hosts to live on a straight bridge. Sorry, I forgot to add to this before. If you

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-17 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Athmane Madjoudj athma...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/16/2010 02:30 AM, Morten P.D. Stevens wrote: 2010/11/16 Dave Stevensg...@uniserve.com: I am curious what is the best way to upgrade my dom0 and domUs to V.6 (currently 5) when it releases. Any experience or docs

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-17 Thread Digimer
On 11/17/2010 10:39 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: So, do I understand this corret: RH6 won't have (native?) XEN support anymore, which obviously means CentOS won't have it either? Have anyone used both XEN KVM before? What are your experiences with either, in comparison to each other? We've been

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-17 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Digimer li...@alteeve.com wrote: On 11/17/2010 10:39 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: So, do I understand this corret: RH6 won't have (native?) XEN support anymore, which obviously means CentOS won't have it either? Have anyone used both XEN  KVM before? What are your

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-17 Thread Digimer
On 11/17/2010 11:02 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Thanx Digimer, Just out of curiosity, are you part of the CentOS development team? Maybe the Wiki hasn't been updated with your info yet? Would you mind posting your findings to this list as well? Nope, I'm independent. When I am done though, if

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-17 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Have anyone used both XEN KVM before? What are your experiences with either, in comparison to each other? We've been using XEN for about 4 years now, and only use CentOS as our server platform. I'd hate to move to Debian or OpenSuse just for XEN,

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-17 Thread Joe Pruett
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Have anyone used both XEN KVM before? What are your experiences with either, in comparison to each other? We've been using XEN for about 4 years now, and only use CentOS as our server platform. I'd hate to move to Debian or OpenSuse just for XEN, and

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-17 Thread RedShift
On 11/17/10 19:22, Joe Pruett wrote: On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Have anyone used both XEN KVM before? What are your experiences with either, in comparison to each other? We've been using XEN for about 4 years now, and only use CentOS as our server platform. I'd hate to move to

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-17 Thread aurfalien
Nope, I'm independent. When I am done though, if people thinks it's good enough quality, I'll make my docs available to the CentOS community should they want to use them. -- Digimer E-Mail: digi...@alteeve.com AN!Whitepapers: http://alteeve.com Node Assassin: http://nodeassassin.org

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-17 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:39:38AM +, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 11/16/2010 01:03 AM, Digimer wrote: Once the bugs have been ironed out, I suspect that CentOS support will follow soon after. There will be experimental kernels before then, but I would not recommend them outside of test

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-17 Thread Digimer
On 11/17/2010 04:13 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:39:38AM +, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 11/16/2010 01:03 AM, Digimer wrote: Once the bugs have been ironed out, I suspect that CentOS support will follow soon after. There will be experimental kernels before then, but I

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-17 Thread Digimer
On 11/17/2010 04:32 PM, Digimer wrote: On 11/17/2010 04:13 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:39:38AM +, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 11/16/2010 01:03 AM, Digimer wrote: Once the bugs have been ironed out, I suspect that CentOS support will follow soon after. There will be

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-16 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 11/16/2010 01:03 AM, Digimer wrote: Once the bugs have been ironed out, I suspect that CentOS support will follow soon after. There will be experimental kernels before then, but I would not recommend them outside of test environments. If someone wants to put in the effort, and if there is

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-16 Thread Athmane Madjoudj
On 11/16/2010 02:30 AM, Morten P.D. Stevens wrote: 2010/11/16 Dave Stevensg...@uniserve.com: I am curious what is the best way to upgrade my dom0 and domUs to V.6 (currently 5) when it releases. Any experience or docs on this? Hi, take a look at here:

[CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-15 Thread Dave Stevens
I am curious what is the best way to upgrade my dom0 and domUs to V.6 (currently 5) when it releases. Any experience or docs on this? Dave -- It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. Krishnamurti ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-15 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 11/16/2010 12:36 AM, Dave Stevens wrote: I am curious what is the best way to upgrade my dom0 and domUs to V.6 (currently 5) when it releases. Any experience or docs on this? the Base CentOS-6 will have no Xen dom0 support, so you will almost certainly want to stick with centos-5 on the

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-15 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org: On 11/16/2010 12:36 AM, Dave Stevens wrote: I am curious what is the best way to upgrade my dom0 and domUs to V.6 (currently 5) when it releases. Any experience or docs on this? the Base CentOS-6 will have no Xen dom0 support, so you will almost

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-15 Thread Digimer
On 11/15/2010 07:36 PM, Dave Stevens wrote: I am curious what is the best way to upgrade my dom0 and domUs to V.6 (currently 5) when it releases. Any experience or docs on this? Dave I know that there is discussion on getting dom0 support into Fedora 15, with maybe 50/50 chance that it will

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-15 Thread Morten P.D. Stevens
2010/11/16 Dave Stevens g...@uniserve.com: I am curious what is the best way to upgrade my dom0 and domUs to V.6 (currently 5) when it releases. Any experience or docs on this? Hi, take a look at here: