Anyone using Ubuntu 9.04?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Apr 29, 2009, at 5:55 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:51:42AM -0400, Mick T wrote:
>> At the moment it doesn't seem as if KVM has the tooling and ease of
>> management in place to manage virtual guests. KVM might be a decent
>> virtualization tech, but I haven't seen the tooling yet that let's me
>> migrate a virtual guest from one server to another, which is  
>> important
>> in server environments.  And for environments currently using Xen the
>> migration path to KVM mightn't be that easy, for example Xen guests
>> wont' necessarily run on KVM without changes or new kernels.  
>> (Correct me
>> if I'm wrong, on any of this.)
>
> http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Migration  (between servers)

What he said.

Also, xen to kvm migration is actually quite simple. Fully virt guests  
are of course a no-brainer, just some minor driver updates in the  
guest for slightly different hardware presented and to maximize  
performance (using the virtio disk/network/etc drivers). Xen para-virt  
guests are supported atop kvm using xenner.

http://kraxel.fedorapeople.org/xenner/
http://xen.org/files/xensummit_fall07/08_abstract.txt

> Also, the libvirt management tools from Red Hat are pretty good.

And from what I've seen, most distros' Xen management tools are all  
libvirt/virt-manager based, and that's the exact same tools you use  
for kvm. At least in my Red Hat and Fedora world, that's the case...


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