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Re: [Xen-users] New to Xen
admin@xxxxxxx wrote:
I am new to Xen, has 14 years of Linux experience so I have no problem
tackling difficult topics, but dont want to waste time unnecessarily.
I need the shortest path to install a Xen Dom0 and then Xen guest images.
1) If it exists, I will apprec iate it if I can be pointed to a Xen
enabled distribution that would enable me to immediately start
configuring DomU guests. (I would be very surprised if it doesnt exist)
Last time I looked, OpenSuse did a very good job of integrating Xen.
I've never been a fan of RPM based distros, and I'm not sure of where
OpenSuse stands vis-a-vis the current Xen release, but if you really
want to just install and move on to configuring DomUs - that might be a
place to start.
Personally, I do most of my work on Debian, and my production servers
are still running Lenny and Xen 3 - so my experience is dated (and about
to get refreshed):
- the basic install is easy: simply an apt-get of the current package
- there's a bit of trickiness in getting all the various configuration
stuff right - in lots of places (from kernel parameters in Grub and on -
and I expect this has changed again, what with grub changes going from
Lenny to Squeeze) - there are things to worry about like memory
ballooning, pinning VCPUs, time sources, etc. -- make sure to read
through http://wiki.debian.org/Xen
For what it's worth, I've found Xen more capable than all the other
virtualization alternatives - at least for my purposes - but I've also
found the open source version to be rather touchy, and it takes a lot of
time and attention to get everything wired together reliably (more so,
if you're building any kind of high-availability cluster).
Miles Fidelman
--
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In<fnord> practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
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