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Re: [Xen-users] Most stable Xen distro?
Even on the risk to start the usual distro-flame, i just add, my gentoo
64bit 3.2 xen runs pretty good based on 2.6.21 -xen sources.
Florian
Mark Smith schrieb:
Is there a consensus on which distro is the best for running a Xen dom0?
I have tried Debian Etch (Xen 3.0.3/2.4.18 kernel) but it was having
problems with the domU's thinking the (virtual) hard drive was bad.
I upgraded to Xen 3.2 hypervisor and tools (Using Etch Backports) and that
helped quite a bit (errors are not fatal but still there) but this left the
kernel untouched and I assumed that it would be best to get a kernel
compiled with the same version of hypervisor you are using.
I then tried Ubuntu Gutsy (Xen 3.1/2.6.22 kernel) but the domU guests hang
while booting.
I would prefer a Debian Etch dom0 but will go with whatever works best.
So to clarify.. Is there a Xen distro package / Kernel package combination
that works best?
I would consider compiling from scratch but I am not sure that would do any
better.
Any suggestions?
I setup my Xen box on 3.0.1 back almost two years ago. I tried really
hard to use a Debian dom0 but was unable to get it to work - notably
at the time it didn't have drivers for my SATA card, so I tried
building my own kernel. Wasn't very happy with the fragility of the
setup, so I went to CentOS 4 and it worked amazingly well.
Honestly, you don't do much with the dom0. If you're doing Xen right,
your dom0 is almost untouched. Just sits there. So I can highly
recommend using something that works really well (CentOS, Fedora Core,
etc) and putting Debian/Ubuntu/etc as your domUs. That's what I do!
Just last week I updated to Xen 3.2 as well, and things are running
great right now.
Caveat lector: I am using Xen kernels I compiled myself, I am not
using any distro packaged anything. I probably could use packaged
stuff with 3.2, but back in the 3.0.1 days, the packages weren't that
good IMO. If you use the packages, your experience may vary. :)
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