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Re: [Xen-users] Cluster (VPC), Eucalyptus and preferred distribution to

Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Cluster (VPC), Eucalyptus and preferred distribution to it.
From: Thomas Goirand <thomas@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:19:58 +0800
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Luke S Crawford wrote:
> Eh, personally I have been using CentOS/RHEL for a while (mostly because
> that's what my consulting clients want, so I might as well get experience
> that is relivant.)  
> 
> Recently, though, I've moved prgmr.com to the Xen.org kernels, because
> xen.org 3.3 is compellingly better, as far as I can tell, than the backported
> RHEL  5.2  Xen 3.1/3.0.3 mess.  
> 
> I've stuck with a CentOS userland, as the xen.org kernel is 2.6.18, just
> like the CentOS 5 kernel, so it mostly works as a drop-in replacement.  
> Last time I did this with a distro that was expecting a more modern 
> kernel, I had to replace all sorts of utilities... from vmstat on up.  
> 
> I do think that the 3.3 hypervisor is compellingly better than the 3.1/3.0.3 
> hypervisor that CentOS/RHEL and ec2 use, and it's backwards compatable, so
> I don't see the point of hobbling yourself just 'cause amazon has done so.  

What prevents you from using the hypervisor 3.3 in Debian? IT IS
available (just not in Lenny directly, but still available).

Thomas

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