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Re: [Xen-users] Xen + RHEL5 + 64/32 bit


  • To: Steven Timm <timm@xxxxxxxx>
  • From: Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 22:34:21 +0100
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Steven Timm wrote:

Does anyone have experience with the Xen that's built in to RHEL5?
Does it have most of the feature set of the open source version xen 3.04
or is it an older version?  Has it proved to be stable?
Go look at and install CentOS 5.0 to find out for yourself, or look at the SRPM repositories for RHEL on a public mirror. It's xen-3.0.3, with virt-manager and virt-install, and can instlal RHEL 4.5 DomU's. But it's well behind the leading edge of Xen development: RHEL 5.1 is supposed to have significant improvements.

RHEL has a big problem that when they publish a specific release, they feel they are *STUCK* at that release for a long, long time. So even the new RHEL 5 was already 4-6 months behind the leading edge and can expect to stay that way until RHEL 6 comes out for all its core packages.
For a new Xen system would you recommend installing RHEL4 (or clones)
and then downloading the xen rpms and tarballs from the Xen site,
or picking RHEL5 and using the Xen that comes with that?
Save the money: experiement with CentOS, which has the centosplus repository for updated software and turning on things like NTFS in the kernels.

Also, has anyone tried, under either of those modes,
to have an x86_64 host OS and i686-based virtual clients?
Are there any docs online of how to do that?
It's supposed to just work from the virt-manager installs in para-virtualization mode. I've not tried it.

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