> Just out of curiosity, >> >> why would someone want to run Xen over KVM in RHEL6? > > In my case, I can think of various reasons : > * I already have puppet modules, classes and definitions to manage Xen > dom0 servers and all of their domU configurations. > * I already have puppet modules using stored configurations to > automatically enable nagios monitoring for all servers and > transparently set a whole bunch of Xen specific details : dom0 as > the parent node, dom0 monitoring of which Xen domUs are running, > domU facts about their dom0, etc. > * All of my internal documentation about Xen is complete, clean and > fully updated. Ready to be followed. > > Given the above, switching to anything other than Xen will require a > significant amount of work in order to get to the same level. I'm not > saying it won't happen... but I do plan to stick with RHEL5 dom0s for a > while instead of jumping onto the KVM bandwagon :-) RHEL6 dom0s would > be another interesting option, though I would definitely feel more > comfortable sticking with RHEL5 and Xen 3, which I know inside out.
I guess if your processors don't have hardware virtualization that might be 1 more reason, i'd feel pretty sorry for anyone trying to run VM's on a cpu like that with kvm:) _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list
