Support for Xen
- Thread starter chopeta
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ROADMAP : is online
FYI Folks - roadmap is online:
http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap
for those searching
FYI Folks - roadmap is online:
http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap
for those searching
we already got a solution for full virtualization - KVM. so why should we add another one? I see no advantage here, please correct me if I am wrong.
due to the fact that Redhat moved also from XEN to KVM (they acquired the company behind KVM) we think KVM is the future for open source virtualization - not XEN.
Tom,
I agree with you, but I also think that we should leave that decision to the users. What happen with users that prefer Xen over KVM? They are not users for PVE?
Actually I have a few friends that do no use OpenVZ cause they already have tons of Xen VMs implemented.
Again, as a virtualization solution I think we be nice if we support Xen.
p.d.: I have 8 physical servers (in 3 diff. Clusters) using PVE and I only use OpenVZ containers
One more time, thanks for this great solution.
chopeta
Well, I got your point. But unfortunately someone has to implement and test that. We do not have the resources for that. Is should also be fairly easy to convert a VM from Xen to KVM.
- Dietmar
Dietmar,
I also have this problem. XEN is very popular and we have several VMs that are working very good.
I like your PVE but it is a problem for me to switch production VMs to KVM.
I also find it hard to trust OpenVZ for real time applications because a crash of one VM can cause all other VMs on the same host to crash.
You say that it should be fairly easy to convert a VM from XEN to KVM.
Do you happen to have the instructions to do that? Or if you can post a URL that you know about with those instructions?
I was not able to find an easy way to do that.
Thanks!
I've migrated my VM from Xen(source) to KVM. The kernel was specific so there was a need of some precautions :
http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/391-Migration-of-servers-to-Proxmox-VE?p=21252#post21252
if you use a full virtualized VM (without specific kernel) :
* create a VM via Proxmox with the same HDD's
* dd from the source to the new HDD's...
* be careful of the fstab (if Linux)
should be as simple as that
http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/391-Migration-of-servers-to-Proxmox-VE?p=21252#post21252
if you use a full virtualized VM (without specific kernel) :
* create a VM via Proxmox with the same HDD's
* dd from the source to the new HDD's...
* be careful of the fstab (if Linux)
should be as simple as that