[Users] Switch to new red hat 5 kernel

Kirill Korotaev dev at sw.ru
Thu Mar 15 09:48:59 EDT 2007


> Yes, RHEL5 would support Xen "para virtualised guests OS's." It would be 
> interesting to see if the Xen GUI tools become available in CentOS.
> 
> RH are recommending a minimum "physical memory" per active guest of 512MB.
> 
> I've always found the OS Virtualisation/shared kernel of 
> Virtuozzo/OpenVZ more suitable for hosting and there is more control 
> over resources.

I'm pretty sure, that not only for hosting.
Filesystem-related operations (databases),
high speed networking operations (like file servers) -
all these have much lower overhead and natively support SMP systems,
i.e. it scales pretty much good.

Regards,
Kirill



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