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KVM is the feather in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 (ars Technica)
ars Technica
covers a change in
virtualization software for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4.
"Red Hat announced Wednesday the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4, a new major point update of the company's popular commercial Linux distribution. This version introduces official support for KVM and marks an important milestone in Red Hat's gradual transition away from Xen.
KVM, the Kernel-based Virtual Machine, is an open source framework that brings native full virtualization to the Linux kernel."
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KVM is the feather in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 (ars Technica) Posted Sep 3, 2009 22:43 UTC (Thu) by Skedyagpic (guest, #60375) [Link]
Tell us, please, what else ars Technica reviews. Maybe you could copy and paste more than the title.
KVM is the feather in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 (ars Technica) Posted Sep 3, 2009 23:25 UTC (Thu) by cook (subscriber, #4) [Link]
Sorry, clarified now.
KVM is the feather in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 (ars Technica) Posted Sep 3, 2009 23:38 UTC (Thu) by Skedyagpic (guest, #60375) [Link]
lol. Any chance there might be some database driven feed generator for lwn at some point in the future? like subscribe to http://lwn.net/rss?weeklies=0&rebroadcasts=0&orig...
KVM is the feather in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 (ars Technica) Posted Sep 4, 2009 5:37 UTC (Fri) by SEJeff (subscriber, #51588) [Link]
Funny, I started typing up a design of one in python + lxml today and will likely hack on it this weekend.
KVM is the feather in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 (ars Technica) Posted Sep 4, 2009 17:36 UTC (Fri) by yodermk (subscriber, #3803) [Link]
RHEL 5.4 has some useful improvements -- chrooted SSH and the kernel patch that tracks per-process I/O among the most useful -- but what about RHEL 6?
RHEL 5 is ancient history in Linux, and this won't fundamentally change that. Red Hat's release cycle is getting to be longer than Debian Stable used to be (shudder!!!). There were IIRC 25 months between the release of RHEL4 and RHEL5. It's been almost 30 months since then and still no sign of a RHEL6 beta. IMHO a release cycle of 2 years is about right for an enterprise distro.
I support RHEL in a web hosting environment, and there are endless requests for newer packages than RHEL 5 provides. Plus when I try to do something with it, I run into limitations tha are solved by newer packages. It puts me in a bit of a bind, because I really can't recommend Fedora for production servers (as much as I love it on the desktop).
I love Red Hat, I really do. I was wowed by RHEL 5 when it came out. We just need to get with the times!
KVM is the feather in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 (ars Technica) Posted Sep 4, 2009 18:51 UTC (Fri) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639) [Link]
Question.
When you say support RHEL5 as a hosting provider, are you including Centos5 instances in with RHEL5 instances are are you referring strictly to RHEL5 instances?
-jef
KVM is the feather in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 (ars Technica) Posted Sep 5, 2009 5:56 UTC (Sat) by yodermk (subscriber, #3803) [Link]
Both. I normally work with RHEL but CentOS of course is in the same boat.
KVM is the feather in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 (ars Technica) Posted Sep 5, 2009 22:42 UTC (Sat) by quotemstr (subscriber, #45331) [Link] the kernel patch that tracks per-process I/O among the most usefulThe one that works with atop? That's great. One question, though: that sort of thing should already have been possible using systemtap, right? How exactly would one go about writing the systemtap script to do that? I support RHEL in a web hosting environment, and there are endless requests for newer packages than RHEL 5 provides. Plus when I try to do something with it, I run into limitations tha are solved by newer packages. It puts me in a bit of a bind, because I really can't recommend Fedora for production servers (as much as I love it on the desktop).Why not backport Fedora packages to RHEL? On the servers I administer, I do it routinely.
KVM is the feather in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 (ars Technica) Posted Sep 6, 2009 11:21 UTC (Sun) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
Is this updates to existing RHEL packages or add-on packages? If it is the latter, EPEL might be useful
KVM is the feather in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 (ars Technica) Posted Sep 15, 2009 5:39 UTC (Tue) by yodermk (subscriber, #3803) [Link]
We use EPEL some times, but I'm mainly talking about newer versions of, say, PHP and Python (which we provide from our own repository), and things like ImageMagick, Dovecot, Postfix, Apache, and of course the kernel and system utilities -- all of which have new features that are not available in RHEL 5.
Backporting from Fedora is disadvantageous in that we need our customers to have automatic security updates. I've done it before but don't consider it ideal.
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