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

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx>]

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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