Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-18 Thread Gabriel Tabares
> The biggest single up-front difference for me on CentOS machines was > that KVM hosts default to NAT on a private bridge while Xen hosts > default to straight bridging. Some network tweaks are necessary to get > KVM hosts to live on a straight bridge. Sorry, I forgot to add to this before. If y

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-18 Thread Gabriel Tabares
> Also, if you assign MACs to your VMs at installation time (I do, for > DHCP- and DNS-related reasons), you should note that KVM MACs lives in > a different namespace: 54:52:00:xx:xx:xx. You can change the allocated MAC address by editing the files in /etc/libvirt/qemu . Edit the section and y

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-17 Thread Digimer
On 11/17/2010 04:32 PM, Digimer wrote: > On 11/17/2010 04:13 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:39:38AM +, Karanbir Singh wrote: >>> On 11/16/2010 01:03 AM, Digimer wrote: Once the bugs have been ironed out, I suspect that CentOS support will follow soon after. T

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-17 Thread Digimer
On 11/17/2010 04:13 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:39:38AM +, Karanbir Singh wrote: >> On 11/16/2010 01:03 AM, Digimer wrote: >>> Once the bugs have been ironed out, I suspect that CentOS support will >>> follow soon after. There will be experimental kernels before then

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-17 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:39:38AM +, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 11/16/2010 01:03 AM, Digimer wrote: > > Once the bugs have been ironed out, I suspect that CentOS support will > > follow soon after. There will be experimental kernels before then, but I > > would not recommend them outside of te

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-17 Thread aurfalien
> Nope, I'm independent. When I am done though, if people thinks it's > good > enough quality, I'll make my docs available to the CentOS community > should they want to use them. > > -- > Digimer > E-Mail: digi...@alteeve.com > AN!Whitepapers: http://alteeve.com > Node Assassin: http://nodeassa

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-17 Thread RedShift
On 11/17/10 19:22, Joe Pruett wrote: > On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >>> Have anyone used both XEN& KVM before? What are your experiences >>> with either, in comparison to each other? We've been using XEN for >>> about 4 years now, and only use CentOS as our server platform. I'd >>> hate

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-17 Thread Joe Pruett
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> Have anyone used both XEN & KVM before? What are your experiences >> with either, in comparison to each other? We've been using XEN for >> about 4 years now, and only use CentOS as our server platform. I'd >> hate to move to Debian or OpenSuse just for

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-17 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Have anyone used both XEN & KVM before? What are your experiences > with either, in comparison to each other? We've been using XEN for > about 4 years now, and only use CentOS as our server platform. I'd > hate to move to Debian or OpenSuse just for XEN

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-17 Thread Digimer
On 11/17/2010 11:02 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Thanx Digimer, > > Just out of curiosity, are you part of the CentOS development team? > Maybe the Wiki hasn't been updated with your info yet? > > Would you mind posting your findings to this list as well? Nope, I'm independent. When I am done though,

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-17 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Digimer wrote: > On 11/17/2010 10:39 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> So, do I understand this corret: RH6 won't have (native?) XEN support >> anymore, which obviously means CentOS won't have it either? >> >> Have anyone used both XEN&  KVM before? What are your experienc

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-17 Thread Digimer
On 11/17/2010 10:39 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > So, do I understand this corret: RH6 won't have (native?) XEN support > anymore, which obviously means CentOS won't have it either? > > Have anyone used both XEN& KVM before? What are your experiences with > either, in comparison to each other? We've be

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-17 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Athmane Madjoudj wrote: > On 11/16/2010 02:30 AM, Morten P.D. Stevens wrote: >> 2010/11/16 Dave Stevens: >>> I am curious what is the best way to upgrade my dom0 and domUs to V.6 >>> (currently 5) when it releases. Any experience or docs on this? >> >> Hi, >> >> ta

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-16 Thread Athmane Madjoudj
On 11/16/2010 02:30 AM, Morten P.D. Stevens wrote: > 2010/11/16 Dave Stevens: >> I am curious what is the best way to upgrade my dom0 and domUs to V.6 >> (currently 5) when it releases. Any experience or docs on this? > > Hi, > > take a look at here: > > http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_En

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-16 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 11/16/2010 01:03 AM, Digimer wrote: > Once the bugs have been ironed out, I suspect that CentOS support will > follow soon after. There will be experimental kernels before then, but I > would not recommend them outside of test environments. If someone wants to put in the effort, and if there is

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-15 Thread Morten P.D. Stevens
2010/11/16 Dave Stevens : > I am curious what is the best way to upgrade my dom0 and domUs to V.6 > (currently 5) when it releases. Any experience or docs on this? Hi, take a look at here: http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Virtualization/chap-Virtualization-v2v-mi

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-15 Thread Digimer
On 11/15/2010 07:36 PM, Dave Stevens wrote: > I am curious what is the best way to upgrade my dom0 and domUs to V.6 > (currently 5) when it releases. Any experience or docs on this? > > Dave I know that there is discussion on getting dom0 support into Fedora 15, with maybe 50/50 chance that it wi

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-15 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Karanbir Singh : > On 11/16/2010 12:36 AM, Dave Stevens wrote: >> I am curious what is the best way to upgrade my dom0 and domUs to V.6 >> (currently 5) when it releases. Any experience or docs on this? > > the Base CentOS-6 will have no Xen dom0 support, so you will almost > certainly wan

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-15 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 11/16/2010 12:36 AM, Dave Stevens wrote: > I am curious what is the best way to upgrade my dom0 and domUs to V.6 > (currently 5) when it releases. Any experience or docs on this? the Base CentOS-6 will have no Xen dom0 support, so you will almost certainly want to stick with centos-5 on the do