Re: [Xen-users] RedHat 5 is out today, includes Xen

["Luke S. Crawford" <lsc@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> So I've just been contacted by RedHat about OS licensing: they took down my 
> name when I told them that doing Xen for RHEL 4 was prohibitively expensive 
> with their one license/guest domain, and I was currently using CentOS on 
> quite a few systems because of this and because up2date sucks so very hard, 
> and because RedHat support is less useful than my own experience and the open 
> source venues for particular software (like Xen itself!)
RHEL5 uses yum, not up2date.  An improvement, IMHO.

> They listened, and called me back to give me pricing for RHEL 5 servers and 
> domains. I've played with the 4.92 beta, and it's not bad: the hypervisor is 
> still fairly silly in a bunch of ways because it prevents much control over 
> the paravirtual environment or with setting up multiple exported images as 
> multiple disks in the Xen environment, or with exporting one mountable image 
> as one partition instead of building internal partitions. (Useful for some 
> tasks, trust me on this!)
As far as I can tell, all of the limitations in the RedHat gui can be 
overcome by using the command line tools;  RedHat includes the standard 
Xen xm tools;  it just has a nice gui on top that can handle a subset of 
the xm tool's functionality to make things easy.   If you drop to a shell 
prompt, the xm tools work just like on a standard Xen3 install.
> But it's not bad. Anyone else out there planning on using it?
I have one client that has been using it since beta2;  if you have money 
and don't have the ability to identify or retain good Linux nerds, RedHat 
is an excellent choice.  The support my client gets is pretty good.
I do not know what this costs, though I imagine it's quite expensive. 
Still, I'm not complaining about the service (and from me, that's 
something of a compliment.  I'm a loud and harsh critic of mediocre 
support services.)
Me, I don't have money, so I'll try the CentOS 5 variety out, if 
nothing else, then to get some practice.  but I will probably end up 
using slack for my Dom0 and whatever the customer wants for the DomU.
(does anyone use DSL or another embedded distribution for the Dom0?)

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