[Xen-users] Dell PowerEdge + XEN

[Max E Baro <MEB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Luis,

 

I used RedHat ES 4 Update 3, 64-bit version to host my XEN machine.  Unfortunately I had to take that machine apart and don't have XEN on it anymore, so I won't be able to supply many details.

 

I was able to start the VM's with both VNC and SDL.  SDL did not work very well, so I set VNC and did not autostart VNC viewer.  I mostly connected to the VM using Remote Desktop installed by RedHat.

 

Before VNC would work though, I had to get a VNC server running in dom0 first.  I think the server creates some files necessary for a connection that the XEN startup does not create.  After being able to VNC into localhost I was able to VNC into the VM.

 

I had to disable USB ports on all my dell servers running linux because of IRQ contention.  I also included 'noirqbalance' as a kernel argument for dom0.

 

For networking, I used brighe with the default settings and it worked.  I needed to test a routing configuration without bridging and was able to make it work.  I started xen with network-route and vif-route.  To connect to the HVM domU's I had to assign an IP address to the TUN interface created with the domU.  The configuration files had no way of identifying which TUN interface goes with a domU so I had to assign the addresses manually.

 

I ran WinXP as a workstation in a domU and everything worked perfectly except for my dual-monitors and I had no sound.

 

Hope this helps...good luck.

Max Baro
Technical Support Supervisor
FACTS Services, Inc.
(305) 284 - 7440
meb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Re: [Xen-users] DELL PowerEdge 2850 - no CPU vme supportFrom: Luis Raddatz L. [luis.raddatz@xxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 12:55 PM
To: Max E Baro
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] DELL PowerEdge 2850 - no CPU vme support

 

Hi Max, sorry for the direct mail.

 

I have some problems with my Dell PE2950 and I want to know your experience, with your virtualization.

 

 

 

What OS are you using ?  32 or 64 bits ?

 

I'm using RedHat 64 bits and I can't use vnc option. Have you?

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks

 

Luis

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