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CentOS 6 support [message #86913] Sat, 16 July 2011 12:28 Go to next message
Kemuel is currently offline Kemuel  Belgium
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Hello everyone,

We're currently setting up a HyperVM server in our office before sending it to the datacenter. We already have things running on CentOS 5.6 but since it's not that practical to reinstall the OS while it's in use we would like to install CentOS 6 before shipping it if possible. Has anyone installed HyperVM+xen on CentOS 6 yet?

It would be nice to know if things would work at all before reformatting everything.

Thanks in advance. Smile

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Re: CentOS 6 support [message #87062 is a reply to message #86913] Tue, 19 July 2011 01:34 Go to previous messageGo to next message
mustafaramadhan is currently offline mustafaramadhan  Indonesia
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When we run 'yum update' that centos still stuck on 5.6 version until now.

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Re: CentOS 6 support [message #87074 is a reply to message #87062] Tue, 19 July 2011 03:44 Go to previous messageGo to next message
xester is currently offline xester  Portugal
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5.6 will be the last update made on 5 version of CentOS.

Will not and i heard dont continue the major update, only fresh instalations of 6

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Re: CentOS 6 support [message #87101 is a reply to message #87074] Tue, 19 July 2011 16:02 Go to previous messageGo to next message
shazar is currently offline shazar  United States
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Per the CentOS website the end of life of CentOS 5 is 2014. It's not really something to jump into so quickly especially with production.

"CentOS-5 updates until Mar 31, 2014"

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Re: CentOS 6 support [message #87171 is a reply to message #87101] Wed, 20 July 2011 16:12 Go to previous messageGo to next message
shazar is currently offline shazar  United States
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Actually CentOS 6 won't even support Xen. I think it will still work with hardware virtualization extensions enabled.

http://www.infoworld.com/d/virtualization/red-hat-drops-xen- in-favor-kvm-in-rhel-6-498

As far as I can tell you basically won't have a kernel-xen nor would you even have the xen tools. Check out the repos and compare 5.6 to 6.0 and see for yourself.

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Re: CentOS 6 support [message #87174 is a reply to message #87171] Wed, 20 July 2011 19:21 Go to previous messageGo to next message
xester is currently offline xester  Portugal
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actually no, xen will update soon on that metter.

you can try yourself patch the current kernel you use but i think its not good.

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Re: CentOS 6 support [message #87203 is a reply to message #87174] Thu, 21 July 2011 09:04 Go to previous messageGo to next message
shazar is currently offline shazar  United States
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I am not certain what you are talking about.

Are you saying the Xen doesn't require either kernel support or VT-x (or the AMD equivalent)? If that is what you are saying then you are wrong.

Also if you are saying that CentOS 6 will have Xen support, you are also wrong. CentOS 6 will not have it and we would either have to provide the package ourselves or use a repository that may already have it. Of course without the hardware supporting VT-X, we'd also have to provide a kernel.

There is nothing wrong with sticking with CentOS 5.6. This is the advantage of using an OS with a long support life.

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Re: CentOS 6 support [message #87675 is a reply to message #87203] Wed, 03 August 2011 20:40 Go to previous messageGo to next message
shazar is currently offline shazar  United States
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I just found out that CentOS 6 will work as a domU but not as a dom0. I'll test and report.

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Re: CentOS 6 support [message #87777 is a reply to message #87203] Sun, 07 August 2011 18:17 Go to previous messageGo to next message
xester is currently offline xester  Germany
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i dont said otherwise about VT support, for full virtualization its allways need.

Leets see where it leads, if that append we need to install everything from source.

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Re: CentOS 6 support [message #89524 is a reply to message #86913] Thu, 29 September 2011 16:17 Go to previous message
eckside is currently offline eckside  Canada
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any idea

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