[NTLUG:Discuss] RHEV-H (the standalone hypervisor of RHEV)

[Ralph Green]

Howdy,
  I do most of my virtualization with VirtualBox.  I am still just
playing with KVM.  KVM needs hardware virtualization support and none of
my virtualization machines have that.  So, I know this question may
sound kind of uninformed.  Is RedHat forced to do some of this?  KVM is
one of the newest virtualization platforms and I don't know if it is
mature enough to use in production.  I am not saying it isn't, but just
that I don't ever see anyone use it except for people working on some
neat new programs in the virtualization area.  VMWare, XEN, and
VirtualBox are used quite a bit in production.  Does any distro package
KVM in a way that it is more open and useful that RedHat is doing?  Suse
seems to push XEN, so I'd give RedHat some credit for trying to work
with the more open technology.  I thought RedHat was the one doing more
work on libvirt, so it seems they should get credit there, too.
  Please educate me, since I am looking for good information in this
area.  And, in a related note, I'll add that the thing I am looking for
the most is a good physical to virtual tool.  I have been experimenting
with writing part of this myself, since I have not found anything
useful.  But, I still think someone out there must have already
addressed this problem.
Good day,
Ralph

On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 18:41 -0500, Chris Cox wrote:
> Anyone out there that can go deep into this subject?
> 
> My experiences so far.... D-.
> 
> IMHO, RHEV won't be ready for AT LEAST two more full
> iterations (AFTER 2.2 is released).
> 
> Current product is a PROPRIETARY KVM implementation that
> uses a proprietary protocol path from a Windows 2003
> Server 32bit ONLY .Net application.