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Red Hat Releases RHEL 5.1, Includes Virtualization
eldavojohn writes "Red Hat has announced their release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1, which includes integrated virtualization. Also of note, 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux is also available on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), a web service that provides resizeable compute capacity in the cloud. This collaboration makes all the capabilities of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, including the Red Hat Network management service, world-class technical support and over 3,400 certified applications, available to customers on Amazon's proven network infrastructure and datacenters.'"
ha! Does it make kool-aid too?
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 virtualization delivers considerably broader server support than proprietary virtualization products, and up to twice the performance."
But can it support Leopard?
But does it run ...? Er. Never mind.
Many of other distros have included Xen for quite some time.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtualization includes the ability to perform live migration, allowing customers to seamlessly move running applications from one server to another...
How good is the live migration support? Has anyone used it?
Is this based on Xen or something else?
Earlier this week at woek an Amazon rep present on the Amazon Web Services (AWS). I didn't expect much, but the presentation at least sounded pretty impressive. So the RH on Amazon compute servers is something I and others should check out.
Think Deeply.
My guess is that it's Xen. RHEL5 includes virtualization with Xen, so I'm pretty sure it's the same in 5.1.
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What makes me happy: Kerberos 1.6 ewith LDAP Backend! Hell yeah! OpenAFS 1.4, Fuck yeah! No more maintaining two databases for Kerberos and one for everything else: Win and God.
Currently their virtualization is based on Xen, but when I recently talked with a RH employee involved in this part, they hinted to a strong possibility of switching to KVM. Basically they said these commands can change, but if you learn how to do it with these commands then you won't have to worry as much about changes in the framework. The commands he was pushing me away from were Xen specific.
Sorry I forget the reason for why they might change, but it had to do with compatibility and ease of use.
At the time I was a little confused as to whether it was a good thing they were dynamic enough to change or a bad thing. But I think that they have worked with Xen a long time and there were be pretty good reasons to change from a customer/business point of view.
He who said 1,000,000 monkeys on 1,000,000 typewriters would eventually type the great novel, never saw an AOL chat room
When does the CentOS alternative come out? ;-)
I was going to post, and CentOS comes out in 5...4...3...2...
I thought Red Hat just wanted their VM management software to be hypervisor agnostic. If they abstract away from having anything specific to a particular one, they could better harness forks and updates as OSS is so good at.
I finally figured out why 'virtualization' bugs me so much.
Its TIMESHARING! Duh! ( Not timeslicing! )
Tune in tomorrow on slashdot for that story.
It's even kind of surreal, knowing that Red Hat 6.0 was released in 1999. I still have a copy of the original Red Hat 5.x release from 1998.
I realize it's a different product and all, but it's kind of weird that this sounds like 1998 all over again.
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I've had 4 windows 2000 servers running under kvm[0] (on centos 5.0 host). The performance seemed about the same as vmware, albeit I wasn't able to get dnsmasq and VDE[1] running correctly. Anyway, kvm is rolled into the centos 5 kernel and it does GUI where Xen does not. It's a bit ragged to setup, but looks promising.
[0] - http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki
[1] - http://wiki.virtualsquare.org/index.php/VDE
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Diversification. That is a very dangerous proposition, especialy for a company which, while highly valued, is not THAT profitable.
They started with the books.
then doing stores fr other merchants.
Then a search engine.
Now datacenters.
Wish them well, but honest to god, I donot know how that may end well.
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.... before I can run RHEL, XP and Leopard virtualised on my PC? THAT'll be what I call "cloud" computing. That aside, now I can install Linux with XP virtualised for all my friends and clients, advising them to do all their internet work on Linux, keep the NIC disabled on XP and limit XP to games and proprietary software not available on Linux. Gradually ween them off Windows.
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"and it does GUI where Xen does not"
What do you mean by this? The graphics support in Xen and KVM is pretty much the same, given that they both use qemu for VGA emulation. If you're talking admin-Gui on CentOS, it's virt-manager for both.
With the release of Redhat 5 back in spring, someone at Redhat mentioned that they were working on KVM, does anyone know if Redhat is planning to drop Xen in favor of KVM with next release?
Sorry I forget the reason for why they might change, but it had to do with compatibility and ease of use.
Something to do with having to maintain two different Linux kernels (the kernel and kernel-xen) and having a hypervisor underneath it all which essentially copies functionality from the Linux kernel. Ulrich Drepper explains it a bit better here. KVM is a simple kernel module and just makes a lot more sense.
> What do you mean by this? I had read that Xen was not able to support GUI environments and could only be used with textmode/console based OS flavors. Perhaps I've misunderstood.
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