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ConVirt certified on RHEL 5.4 for Xen and KVM

We are pleased to announce the addition of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 to our list of Certified Configurations for both Xen and KVM. Check out the full list at Certified Configurations

Here are some key ConVirt features. Visit Features Page for more information.

  • Manage the complete lifecycle of virtual machines
  • Easily manage server pools
  • Rapidly provision with templates
  • Optimize your deployment with intelligent virtual machine placement
  • Download and deploy virtual appliances
  • Live migrate virtual machines with a simple drag-and-dropManage the complete lifecycle of virtual machines
  • Easily manage server pools
  • Rapidly provision with templates
  • Optimize your deployment with intelligent virtual machine placement
  • Download and deploy virtual appliances
  • Live migrate virtual machines with a simple drag-and-drop
You can download ConVirt from here and get related patches over here.

Cloning a VM or using Gold image to provision VMs using ConVirt

"Can I clone a VM ?"

"I have spent time coming up with a perfect image (gold image), how can I use ConVirt to provision VMs from it ?"

As I heard quite a few similar queries, I thought it might be useful to have blog entry that explains it. Apart from some differences between VM Cloning and using a reference image, both boil down to having pre-cooked disk(s) that are ready for creating more VMs from it. It is assumed that the environment would use DHCP and other vm specific customizations would be carried out on first boot.

As ConVirt is built with very flexible provisioning scheme, it only takes few simple steps to achieve this.

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