[ILUG] Virtual server question

[Darragh Bailey]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 02:28:08PM +0100, kae at verens.com wrote:
> On 07/20/2009 02:21 PM, Kevin Philp wrote:
>>
>> Any advice on which option to go for? Xen or KVM - KVM seems to be the  
>> favoured option if you read the Ubuntu docs but the few people I know  
>> in the industry use Xen.
>
> I use OpenVZ myself, which has the advantage that all the virtual  
> servers share the same kernel so it's faster, and the disadvantage that  
> all of the virtual servers must be based on the same operating system  
> and distro.
>
> kae

That's not strictly speaking true. I have a Centos 5.2 host running
RedHat 5.3 & 4.6 guests. I also believe that it should be possible to
run a Redhat 3 guest as well, but I haven't tested it. You do have to
kludge around with the environment a little to run the older distros on
it, but it should be possible.


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Darragh

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