CentOS - Nov 2009 - Virtualization option at first install CentOS-5.4 x86_64

When I choose the virtualization option during the first install of
CentOS-5.4 do I get KVM or XEN?

Regards,


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On Fri, November 6, 2009 13:30, James B. Byrne wrote:
> When I choose the virtualization option during the first install of
> CentOS-5.4 do I get KVM or XEN?
>
Evidently, one gets XEN.  I will get kvm from extras and go about
installing it manually.


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On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 10:50 AM, James B. Byrne <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca>
wrote:
>
> On Fri, November 6, 2009 13:30, James B. Byrne wrote:
>> When I choose the virtualization option during the first install of
>> CentOS-5.4 do I get KVM or XEN?
>>
>
> Evidently, one gets XEN. ?I will get kvm from extras and go about
> installing it manually.
You should have a choice at the installation time. Note that KVM is
available for 64-bit only.

Akemi

>
> Well, it turns out that qemu is required and kvm-qemu-img was the
> source of the problem.  Removing this and installing qemu instead
> fixed the problem.
>
Actually I did the other way round:
yum remove qemu (which is in the extras repo)
yum install -x qemu kvm (excluding qemu and thus kvm-qemu-img will be taken)

My idea was to test the official upstream vendor stuff and only this.

I've been doing a lot of research on virtualization (VMWare, EXSi, xen,
kvm, VirtualBox, etc.) and ended up choosing kvm.  I'm very surprised at
how quick I was able to bring up a WinXP VM.

I tried VMWare's EXSi 4.0 on bare metal, and failed.  Then I tried
VirtualBox on CentOS 5.3 and failed.  So I decided to download a fresh
CentOS 5.4 iso and see if kvm would work.  Since Red Hat has purchased
the developer of kvm, I figured y the time it showed up in 5.4 most of
the kinks would be worked out.

Go with kvm...that appears to be the future for RHEL and CentOS.

DaveM

On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 13:30 -0500, James B. Byrne wrote:
> When I choose the virtualization option during the first install of
> CentOS-5.4 do I get KVM or XEN?
> 
> Regards,
> 
>