On 05/28/2010 11:01 AM, Joseph Apuzzo wrote: > Ok I started a side project using KVM that has snowballed in to a huge > success. > There has been some debate ( with my colleges ) over which base OS is > best ( aka the OS that runs the hyper-visor ) > > My PoC ( Proof of Concept ) Cluster's HV (hyper-visor) is on Ubuntu > 64bit but I noticed that Red Hat has been doing a good job at making KVM > easy to use. > IBM research has there PoC Cluster's HV on Fedora 12, in both cases we > are using RHEL 5.4 for the VM's OS which is necessary.
Given that RHEL is already in the mix, I'd suggest RHEL5.5 as the base.
It officially supports kvm in 64bit mode, and having the guests and
host be maintainable in the same way has maintenance cost advantages.
-Sean
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