--- On Sun, 11/14/10, Bill Davidsen <davidsen(a)tmr.com> wrote:
Patrick Bartek wrote:
> [snip]
>
> That's okay as long as the OS is "current" when it is
installed and will be supported for those 5 years or
so. (I'm not a cutting edge type of person. It
matters little to me whether something is new or old as long
as it works and satifies my requirements.) I wouldn't
install, say, CentOS 5, on a new or old system today and not
expect problems, either today or later. That's why I'm
waiting for CentOS 6 or Debian 6, etc. to be released before
doing anything to my current 4 year old system--Fedora 12
64-bit.
>
I will probably be using CentOS-5.5 or later until CentOS-7
comes out. RHEL6 is
dropping xen, and the little utility boxes I seem to build
for firewall or
similar don't have HVM and can't support KVM. Hopefully xen
will be back in
mainline soon, and people will have a choice how they want
to run things.
I think you're SOL expecting XEN to be reinstated after being so resoundingly dropped
in favor of KVM by Redhat. I vaguely remember reading a press release about it.
Wait for CentOS 7? Going to be long wait. 5 years(?), at least. But patience _is_ a
virtue. ;-)
B