Re: Xen 4+ vs. Xen 3 (Was Re: [Xen-users] active list?)

[Randy Katz <rkatz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, I read 2 of the 3 already. I just manually created the xenbr0
and it doesn't seem to make a difference with my install of the domU.
Perhaps someone can read this and comment?

Regards,
Randy

On 5/1/2011 6:43 PM, Todd Deshane wrote:
> > On 5/1/2011 11:25 AM, Todd Deshane wrote:
> > > http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Fedora13Xen4Tutorial
> On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Randy Katz<rkatz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > Hi Todd,
> Hi Randy,
>
> This is a great question for the list.
>
> Here is some information on Xen 4.1 in case you haven't seen it yet.
> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Xen4.1
> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/MigrationGuideToXen4.1%2B
> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/HostConfiguration/Networking
>
> Maybe others can comment on what they are using based on your questions below?
>
> > Life on the list! Amazing, thanks! That link is a very good doc! Perhaps
> > I should be using Fedora rather then trying to do it on CentOS. With CentOS
> > I can do everything in stock Xen 3, but when I try Xen 4 (using the gitco.de 
> > repository)
> > and trying to install the domU (from CentOS 5.5/5.6 repo) I get hangs after the 
> > initial
> > (or during) boot, graphic, non-graphic, anything I try. It looks like that 
> > might not be
> > the case with Fedora, though they are using 4.0.1 rather then 4.1.
> >
> > Which brings me to my main set of questions:
> >
> > Is Xen 4 being used in production at all at this time?
> > What features are new in Xen 4 that are being used in production?
> > If nothing and everything can be done with Xen 3 then it looks like I
> > might try to stick there for a while longer.
> >
> > What I want to accomplish is this:
> >
> > 2 test machines running any Linux Distro, DRBD for resilient disk serving
> > either iSCSI, OCF or any other method with Xen VM's (of any template flavor)
> > that are configured in either active/active or active/passive with failover for
> > a common VIP.
> >
> > So if you have a pointer to the best dom0 distro and domU distro to sort this
> > out on that would be great. I would love to be able to have my dom0 CentOS as
> > that is the base on all my production machines, but I am not stuck there.
> >
> > Thank you in advance,
> > Randy Katz
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