Patrick Bartek wrote: > --- On Sun, 11/14/10, Bill Davidsen<davidsen@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Patrick Bartek wrote: >>> [snip] >>> >>> That's okay as long as the OS is "current" when it is >> installed and will be supported for those 5 years or >> so. (I'm not a cutting edge type of person. It >> matters little to me whether something is new or old as long >> as it works and satifies my requirements.) I wouldn't >> install, say, CentOS 5, on a new or old system today and not >> expect problems, either today or later. That's why I'm >> waiting for CentOS 6 or Debian 6, etc. to be released before >> doing anything to my current 4 year old system--Fedora 12 >> 64-bit. >>> >> I will probably be using CentOS-5.5 or later until CentOS-7 >> comes out. RHEL6 is >> dropping xen, and the little utility boxes I seem to build >> for firewall or >> similar don't have HVM and can't support KVM. Hopefully xen >> will be back in >> mainline soon, and people will have a choice how they want >> to run things. > > I think you're SOL expecting XEN to be reinstated after being so resoundingly dropped in favor of KVM by Redhat. I vaguely remember reading a press release about it. > > Wait for CentOS 7? Going to be long wait. 5 years(?), at least. But patience _is_ a virtue. ;-) > If xen goes in mainline, and it is certainly on track to do so, then Fedora 15 (or 16 at the latest) may offer it again. It allows operation on processors which lack HVM, which is not only old gear (my Celeron systems and laptops), but alternate vendors, appliances, and misguided systems killing HVM in BIOS to meet MSFT license requirements. Depending on what you run in a VM, there may be performance issues in xen vs HVM, harder to say with Linux, since it might run paravirtualized anyway. -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
