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Re: [Xen-users] Best distro for installing dom0?

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Best distro for installing dom0?
From: Stephen Yum <steveyum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 21:15:07 -0700
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I'm curious. Can you tell me in detail how you did a 100MB of Debian? Do you have all the stuff to run xend AND have the development tools to recompile kernels? Or are you compiling the kernel on another machine and copying them over to the Xen box? I tried Sarge and could not get it down less than ~500MB with dev tools, but then again being a lazy bum that I am, I didn't try that hard.

But 100MB is impressive.

S

On May 21, 2006, at 6:14 AM, Sylvain Coutant wrote:

I myself am using CentOS 4.3. Seems a lot of people are using Debian
Sarge, FC4/5, etc.

I guess the requirements for a good distro for Xen install are that it
must:

1. be able to do a minimal install
2. be absolutely stable
3. operate with a small footprint
4. be secure

Which distro fits the above best?

They're all just about the same.

Debian footprint with a very basic install is by far the smallest one. Something around 100 MB on disk and no junk service installed. However, it means you know what you are doing and don't require nice X panels to manage your server.


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