On 13 May 2010 22:41, Phil Manuel <p...@pkje.net> wrote: > I have to say they have been very stable. We don't do anything fancy to them > once they are built as we can rebuild the centos ones from kickstart easily. > We rarely don't migrate instances to other machines, and when we do we just > rsync everything over and start up on the other machine.
Thanks very much! I suspect I'll stick to Xen until RHEL/CentOS 6 comes out and officially supports KVM (unless I missed the change of status of KVM in 5.5 from "Technology Preview" (its status in 5.4) to "Supported", have I?) Cheers, --Amos > > Phil > On 13/05/2010, at 10:19 PM, Amos Shapira wrote: > >> On 13 May 2010 22:15, Phil Manuel <p...@pkje.net> wrote: >>> We successfully run kvm on CentOS 5.4 as well, running a mix of windows XP, >>> Ubuntu desktops, further CentOS 5.4 instances. >>> Currently, we use virt-manager to manage the instances, but I'll be looking >>> at Convirture: Enterprise-class management for open source virtualization in >>> the near future. >> >> Thanks very much Phil. >> >> How is the stability and performance you see? The Release Notes and >> Technical Notes for RHEL 5.5 >> (http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.5/html/Technical_Notes/libvirt.html) >> left me with the impression that there is still bug fixing and >> stability work being done on it. >> >> Cheers, >> >> --Amos > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
