Re: Xen version

[Grant McWilliams <grantmasterflash@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 2:19 AM, <nux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Paul Piscuc writes:

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> Hi,
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> We are thinking of using CentOS with XEN in production, but we are facing
> some issues regarding the 3.0.3 version of the xen hypervisor and windows
> paravirtualization. The drivers we are using are from here

> (<URL:http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenWindowsGplPv>http://wiki.xensour

> ce.com/xenwiki/XenWindowsGplPv). The solution we found is upgrading to xen

> 3.4.2, using a strange repository (<URL:http://gitco.de>gitco.de), and

> everything seems to work. Now the question is: would you recomand using
> the 3.0.3 kernel provided by CentOS in production and searching for other
> paravirtualization drivers, or go with 3.4.2? Is this version of the
> hypervisor stable?

Why get complicated and not use KVM? Xen's future @ RedHat is not that
bright.

My 2 pence.

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Nux!
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Yes, installing Xen 3.4.2 is very complicated. It's amazing how anyone can pull it off! :-)

wget http://www.gitco.de/linux/x86_64/centos/5/CentOS-GITCO.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/gitco.repo
yum groupinstall Virtualization

Or you could just put in an XCP install disk and take a nap. You'd have the very stable RHEL 5.5 base for Dom0, Xen 3.4.2 and a kernel roughly equivalent to what you get in RHEL6.
For the record RHEL6 guests run on Xen as will any future Linux Distros.

Grant McWilliams

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