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.'"

Comments

Live migration?

[ceswiedler]

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?

Kerberos 1.6 Support! Yeah!

[Zombie Ryushu]

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.

One question:

[corychristison]

When does the CentOS alternative come out? ;-)

kvm should be looked into if you are considering

[bl8n8r]

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