Re: [Xen-users] Re: preferred XEN dom0 OS

[Rudi Ahlers <Rudi@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Grant McWilliams
<grantmasterflash@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > My problem with CentOS is that CentOS 6 (rather RH6) doesn't have
>> > native XEN anymore so our upgrade path looks a bit uncertain right
>> > now.
>
> Upgrade? It's a Dom0, nothing is running on it but VMs correct? Are there
> features that you need that CentOS5.6 doesn't have? CentOS 5.6 will run
> CentOS 6 DomU's just fine. It seems that people think they're dead in the
> water if their Dom0 isn't running the latest OS. The Dom0 runs VMs and
> manages networks. It really shouldn't be doing more than that IMHO.
>

Even if it just runs VM's, we still need to keep the host OS up to
date for security reasons, to have newer XEN features, etc etc.

>> There are other differences as well (e.g. the userland program is
>> different, "xe" instead of "xm")
>
> And the fact that you're then running a Citrix cloud instead of separate Xen
> hypervisors on separate hosts. I'm migrating 60 servers to XCP (or at least
> doing the study) right now. Virtually everything is different outside of the
> base Dom0 OS and the Hypervisor. I will be writing up a bunch of new scripts
> because the xe command begs to be scripted even more than the xm command
> did. Managing remote logins will be handled by XVP for me.

What are you migrating from, as matter of interest?

CloudMin makes our current setup a XEN cloud, instead of a Citrix
cloud, but it's basically the same thing already :)

>>
>> I don't think webmin/cloudmin will work on XenServer/XCP


CloudMin can manage XenServer hosts, but not XCP, that I know of.


>>
>> --
>> Fajar
>>
>
> Grant McWilliams



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