Star Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 Beta Released
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 1st Jul 2009 19:09 UTC
Red Hat "Red Hat today officially announced the beta availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4, which in my view is a lot more than a typical point release. Sure we're all waiting for the big RHEL 6 release, but there are some major changes in RHEL 5.4. The most obvious change is the shift to the KVM hypervisor (as opposed to Xen). Xen is still in RHEL, but with RHEL 5.4, Red Hat is signaling its intention that KVM (eventually) is to be Red Hat's preferred Hypervisor. It's a preference that Red Hat execs have indicated at multiple points this year and should be no surprise since Red Hat now owns lead KVM vendor Qumranet."
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danieldk
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2005-11-18

Red Hat has never shipped KVM with RHEL5 until now. If KVM is old in Centos it's something that Centos added, follow up with them.


Indeed, that's correct. And I have never upgraded the version in CentOS-Extras, because newer versions were unstable. I have built newer versions of KVM, but there were always show-breaking problems for some of the users beta-testing it.

Things may have gotten better now, but I am not actively involved with CentOS anymore.

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