[ldm-users] CentOS

[Gerry Creager]

I've not played with Xen under CentOS and I'm not sure it's supported 
under v5.  Worth a spin to the CentOS page to check.  Yep.  CentOS 5 
supports the Xen hypervisor.  Should allow you to do what you want.

VMware is a simple install on CentOS.

A recent thread on performance with virtualization suggests that 
applications with lots of I/O will take bigger performance hits than 
those which are essentially processor-bound, as one would expect.

Running LDM under Xen would require one to have sufficient dedicated ram 
for the product queue.  That could get pricey.

gerry

Chris Gidley wrote:
> As a follow up to the whole Fedora 7 issue....
> 
> I am running Ubuntu Server which handles certain things really well, 
> however, I want the compatability with ldm/gempak that it sounds like 
> CentOS gets.  So I started looking more into virtualization, to have two 
> Operating Systems running off the same hardware, because I want to use 
> CentOS, but I don't want to get rid of the OS i have now.
> 
> Has anyone done this before or have a good idea of how to do VMware-ish 
> virtualization on a linux machine? Thoughts/ideas appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
> 

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