Re: Silly question about KVM

["Scot P. Floess" <sfloess@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sure, I understand the support until 2014...was more thinking of moving to 
6 and beyond...

On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 09:42:34AM -0400, Scot P. Floess wrote:
> > I was wondering, if I do not have hardware that natively supports full
> > virtualization...and I choose to use KVM, will my VMs be running in some
> > form of chip emulation (and therefore terribly slow).  To date, I've been
> > using Xen and am very comfortable with it.  I have some fears that later
> > whenever Xen is dropped - I'll have to consider KVM.
>
> Xen is part of RHEL5. RHEL5 will be supported until 2014.
> So Xen will be supported in RHEL5 until 2014. Redhat has stated this many times.
>
> > Also, will Xen be carried forward should Xen be dropped from RHEL?
>
> RHEL6 will run as Xen guest/domU, even if RHEL6 won't have Xen dom0 support.
> Upstream Xen development is very active, so no worries there either.
>
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