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Re: [Xen-users] Selecting a linux distro for a xen-involved project

To: Madhuri Venkatesh <madhureev@xxxxxxxxx>, Ciro Iriarte <cyruspy@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Selecting a linux distro for a xen-involved project
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--- On Wed, 1/14/09, Ciro Iriarte <cyruspy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Ciro Iriarte <cyruspy@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Selecting a linux distro for a xen-involved project
To: "Madhuri Venkatesh" <madhureev@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wednesday, January 14, 2009, 9:52 AM

2009/1/14 Madhuri Venkatesh <madhureev@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> Hi,
> I wanted an opinion on the most xen-compatible linux distro.
>
> Im embarking on a 4 month project with xen which involves the following
> objectives:
> 1.>Creating a tool with GUI that allows
> a)starting,stopping restarting domUs
> b)maintaining a status log of domUs
> c)migration of dom Us
> d) provides status info about domUs
> 2.>Monitoring and Analyzing network usage of domUs using NS2
> 3.>Testing network protocols on the domUs using NS2 in Real time.
>
> I will need to use Xen-api ,which needs xen3.2 or higher...Fedora 8(my
> current dom0)comes with xen3.1 and i ran into "dependency hell"
trying to do
> a yum update.
> I want to select a suitable OS for the dom0...ive heard that CentOS and
> Ubuntu Intrepid are good,i wanted an opinion on which will be the most
> suitable development environment to achieve these goals.Please help.
> Thanks
>
> --
> Madhuri Venkatesh
> Fourth Year Undergraduate Student,Computer Science and
> Engineering,RVCE,Bangalore.

I've been running SLES10SP2 for months without issues, openSUSE has
the same administration tools (virt-manager and vm-install) so it'll
be as good as the other one (without the paid support of course)
**********************
I am not quite sure:-
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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461596#c3



Regards,

--
Ciro Iriarte
http://cyruspy.wordpress.com
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