We've been using CentOS 5 with Xen on our machines for a while now and have really grown to appreciate it. The lack of Xen for Centos 6 is the reason we haven't upgraded yet, but with Xen4CentOS6 we have all the tools we need. The concern some of are having is that when CentOS7 comes out, which will be probably less than a year, is that Xen support for CentOS6 will evaporate. I know this mailing list isn't where I should go for guaranties but are there any indicators that this project is going to stick around or not? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20130815/ab914656/attachment-0006.html>
We've been using CentOS 6.4 for both host and KVM guests for our own
internal uses here, ftp server, mail servers, web server, etc.
I am getting to where we want to offer virtual servers for lease but to
do so we need some method of measuring and/or limiting traffic to individual
guests.
I am wondering what others are using for this purpose? I know that you
can look at traffic stats on the bridge on the host machine but that
information is lost when the machine is rebooted. I'm wondering if there is
any software that databases that information on an ongoing basis and does not
lost information across reboots?
Second question, what are the advantaged and disadvantages of KVM verses
Xen? I played with Xen back when I had CentOS 5, but find KVM easier to work
with and not much difference in performance.
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On Thu, 15 Aug 2013, gregg anderson wrote:> We've been using CentOS 5 with Xen on our machines for a while now and have really grown to appreciate it. The lack of Xen for Centos 6 is the > reason we haven't upgraded yet, but with Xen4CentOS6 we have all the tools we need. The concern some of are having is that when CentOS7 comes > out, which will be probably less than a year, is that Xen support for CentOS6 will evaporate. I know this mailing list isn't where I should go > for guaranties but are there any indicators that this project is going to stick around or not?I think there is no risk of Xen for CentOS6 "evaporating" any time soon, no matter if CentOS7 is released or not.