On Jul 18, 2011, at 5:32 PM, Joshua Penix wrote: > The biggest gotcha is that XenServer wants Linux guests to be > paravirtualized, which means that you have to prepare a compatible kernel > prior to the migration. Depending on your Linux distributions, this may > already be in place or may just be a quick package install away. > > Also be aware that XenServer is quite sensitive to your Linux distribution. > If the one you're using isn't on their supported list, life is going to be > much harder than it was under VMware. You *can* run Linux fully virtualized > under XenServer like you do now with VMware, but you lose the ability to do > basic stuff like live migration, as well as most insight into guest > performance metrics. This may be different in 6.0, but I haven't had time to > play with the beta yet.
Is all this true for Enterprise as well, or just for the version that's running inside an existing Linux install? I mean, we run CentOS which distributes Xen kernels, so that's largely a non-issue for us, but I thought that one of the advantages to the full hypervisor-only model was not having to mess with that sort of thing... D _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
